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WARNING!! Screen Rotation is Bugged!!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Tasmania
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A warning to powerbook owners,
I'd leave the screen rotation well and truly alone, its dodgy as all hell. I did the com:alt:shift:click combo and managed to flip my screen upside down, but now i cant change it back!!
The key combo no longer works and when tying in rotate in the sys prefs search field it takes me to displays and tells me geometry is not supported on this machine. I now have no way that I know of to turn it back aroun ahhhhhH! and the tech support forums are down ATM, so I'm stuck typing upside down at the minute.
I'm not being funny, I've taken a few pics with my V3 phone and will try and up load them somewhere, if anyone can help me undo this i would be very grateful!
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Tasmania
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Quick update, I thought I'd try and restart the machine and see if that fixed it, no luck there, but, once restarted the machine lets you do the com:alt:shift:click combo and presents you with the options again, so Im back to normal but its still bloody stupid and a bug none the less.
I feel a bit dumb now  .....
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: berkeley, ca, usa
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I don't think you needed a restart. Someone else previouly posted that all you need to do is to close the the system prefs, then relaunch. It is freaky when you don't see the option when the screen is upside down. I tried this at the apple store yesterday, I freaked out for a split second 
I then recalled the tip that was given here at macnn.
-tuamigo
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: CT
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Apple disables the rotation feature on their all-in-one computers (iMac, eMac) and PowerBooks and iBooks.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Any explaination it wasn't working, even with the key trick on a G5 1.8 with an NVidia 5200 card? We were trying this at the local reseller last night at the Tiger event. My Powerbook would do it every time though.
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<This space under renovation>
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: :ИOITAↃO⅃
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Sorry, I know you were stressed out, but it's such a hilarious image -- you with an upside-down Powerbook screen, trying to figure out what to do next... email me the photos at mithras.the.prophet, which is a gmail account, and I'll put them up 
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Tasmania
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Ok Mithras I'lll email em to you, and it was a bit bizaree, its bloody hard using the trackpad upside down.
Also tried just restarting system prefs. No joy on that one
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