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Am running on a HP Compaq nx7400 and just tried hooking up a TFT to the docking station... the screen rotates to portrait which would be perfect for my needs, but the graphics driver (Intel 945GM) doesn't appear to have an option to rotate.

I tried loading Intel's newer 945-series drivers but they refused to install (error along the lines of 'not verified for use with this system').

Is there a non-driver solution to this in the form of a generic tool, or does anyone know of a way to force the intel drivers to update?

TIA!

Where are you getting the driver from? Intel directly or from HP/Compaq? Sometimes, you may need to get drivers directly from HP rather than Intel.
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Failing that, you can try Pivot Pro (30 day trial or buy $40 US)

Edit: try this... iRotate. Sounds like it may depend of drivers though. Worth a try anyway.

The driver from HP is dated mid last year and I'm on that currently.

The driver from intel is Jan this year but won't install.

I might get lucky with iRotate, I'll try it tomorrow morning. Thanks sir.

You tried manual install (extract, update via device manager)?

irotate sounds like a good app. It's from entech taiwan which is known for quality graphics/monitor utilities. powerstrip should be a staple in anyones graphics tinkering tool belt imo

Got this working with a combination of the above advice, thanks all!

Summary:

• Manually installed the latest Intel-release 945gm drivers via device manager ('Have Disk' route).
• Checked the Intel Graphics Options menu, still no rotate options.
• Loaded iRotate and tried to rotate the external screen, just made the windows error noise and did nothing.
• Tried rotating the laptop screen, success. Rotated it back to 0degrees
• Tried to rotate the external TFT again, success!
• Checked the intel panel, rotate options had appeared!

Now I could be tripping, perhaps the rotate options were there and I just missed them first pass, but that still doesn't solve the mystery of having to rotate the laptop screen before the external one would rotate.

Still problem solved. At least until we deploy Altiris and it wipes off all my unique setup and makes my laptop a true corporate drone. But so far so good. Thanks both.

some laptops have keystrokes installed to flip the screen, even though the drives do not