Vaio TZ and screen rotation

Has anybody managed to rotate his external monitor attached to a TZ (mine is a VGN-TZ11MN/N)? I have spent nights searching this forum and other forums on the net but haven't found a solution that works.

I have tried the registry "fix", but they didn't work. I have tried different versions of iRotate (from v1.06 to v1.35) and these too didn't work. I have tried Pivot (shareware rotation software), to no avail.

I have upgraded my video driver to a generic one from Intel (version 7.14.10.1461, released on April 1, 2008), suspecting that Sony might have crippled theirs, but the driver from Intel also does not have the rotate option on the Windows tray.

Maybe Intel has disabled the feature in the BIOS. Has anybody succeeded in rotating theirs (using an external monitor, that's all I want)? I'm going crazy. Help!

Cheers,
Norman

 

Nobody has managed to rotate his screen on the TZ? Has anybody tried downgrading to XP and got the rotation to work? Which other hardware components won't work aside from the built-in Web cam? I might be willing to give up some components just to be able to rotate the screen. Thanks.

Cheers,
Norman

 

Have you tried iRotate? It can rotate the screen, just tried and it works in XP. BTW all the components work in XP even the camera.

irotate is free: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/iRotate.shtml

 

i share your pain Norman... i've tried irotate and there was no reactiom from the system whatsoever. would drive me up the walls to downgrade to xp just to get this to work but the change of OS is as much as a problem as the fact that samsung doesn't seem to provide a vista version of its own pivoting software (i'm using a sammy 203b).

any ideas, someone?

cheers,
joao

 

I just tried irotate on my TZ running Vista, and NOTHING. It won't do a thing.

Edit:
Here's something I just found on the irotate forum:

If iRotate does not work on your Intel IGP, and the Intel native rotation controls in Display Properties is missing or disabled, you can try searching thru the registry and setting/changing the following values:

"RotationCaps" - set to 7 (dword)
"EnableRotation" - set to 1 (dword)*
"RotationPolicy" - set to 0 (dword)

*with newer drivers this is a binary value, not a dword

You will probably need to reboot to see if your changes made any difference.

 

This suggestion from the forum didn't work, either.

 

I'm facing this problem too. Tried on a Sony V505 and Compaq V3000 laptop and failed both.