LCD rotation with ATI drivers
 

So I bit the bullet and bought a Dell 1703fp today for a special discount i was offered by the company. I figured the chance to get a 529.00 monitor for 312.00 wasn't going to present itself often. I had done some non-tech work for dell and they offered the gift certificate in addition to paying me, so i'm feeling confident if not nervous of having just spent 312.00 in dell credit at 27% interest. (horrible rate of %, but at $100.00 a month, i'll only have paid 12.00 in interest)

So anyway, I have a RADEON™ 7500 graphics card and the dell 1703fp is capable of 90degree rotation from landscape to portraite mode. Some googleing seems to give conflicting truths as to if current catalyst or hydravision drivers supporting the RADEON™ 7500 support this feauture.
Does anyone has experiance or knowledge using Radeon cards with lcd rotation?
Is there anyone who can answer a solid yes or no on if ATI supports this feauture? (ATI's website doesn't even give usefull results for the terms "lcd rotation" or "monitor rotation")

Should be a Rotation tab in your Advanced Display Properties.
If there isn't down and install Rage3D tweak and enable it.

Ok, so here's the solution.

According to Tim who does level three tech support at ATI, Pivot Pro (the program) is actually an implamentation of ATI's drivers. Since ATI chooses to sell this drivers as a popular program, they do not provide them to end users anymore.

however, OEM makers can still obtain and use the Catalyst drivers that do have rotation enabled by paying a set fee to ATI for the enhanced drivers.

Thus, the drivers for your card Provided to you if you bought a computer from a maker such as dell or compaq will have this feature whereas if you buy a Radeon(any model) off the shelf or from someone like Newegg, the drivers CD you get in the package willl not allow rotation. Period on that. Calling ATI will not help, and you will simply be told to purchase Pivot Pro regardless of what you spent on that 9800.
Logicly, any drivers downloaded from the ATI site won't have the pivot feature, so hold on to any drivers you computer maker gave you if you value rotation as a feature.

So how do you get rotation without shelling out $80.00?
Install Rage3D and enable the feature in the rage3d options. You can then unistall the Rage3D tweaks package if you like and the feature will remain enabled since Rage3D changed the registry entries for the ATI drivers to allow rotation options.
I personally un-installed Rage3D afterwords since I dislike programs that affect crucial setting like GPU clock sitting in resident memory, but your mileage may vary.

Hope this helps some and lets us all get more value from our ATI cards;)

Get rage3d tweak! Just like wombat said!

lose the stock ati drivers and goto www.rage3d.com and use theirs, and also install rage3d tweak.

problem solved!