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I have a HP Pavilion Dv6 laptop and I'm struggling to rotate my screen.
There's no drop down option for orientation in Screen Resolution menu

The same goes for Nvidia and Intel 's preferences screen.


I even tried this
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}000
Change the following two Reg_dword entries
Display1_RotationCaps to the value of 7
Display2_RotationCaps to the value of 7

which didn't work.
I'm on windows 7, Nvidia 650 and Intel HD 4000.

I mostly use the screen rotating feature for Firefox, so if there's any add-on that can archive the same thing it's fine too.

I wrote a small code using greasemonkey, something like this:

document.documentElement.style['transform'] = 'rotate(-90deg)';
document.documentElement.style['-moz-transform'] = 'rotate(-90deg)';
document.documentElement.style['-webkit-transform'] = 'rotate(-90deg)';

This enabled me to rotate the sites, with lots of bug though. But the biggest problem is of course, the mouse movements are still the same and aren't rotated ( up->right , right -> down, down-> left etc )

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I would also suggest updating your video drivers,

Have you tried pressing the Detect button?

There's a couple of ways to sort this out -

push ctrl+alt+-> (or up arrow or other sideways arrow

Or you could try Catalyst Control Centre, i believe the HP Pavilion Dv6 laptop has a AMD Radeon HD graphics card and if you install the Catalyst Control Centre and right click your desktop it will show AMD Engine Control Centre, click on that and you should see Desktop and Displays there will be a rotate option on it which shows pictures of different displays and not a drop down menu which doesn't seem to work for you.

IF that doesn't work it could be a driver issue, i wouldn't recommend messing with the registry unless you know what your doing as that could lead to further problems.

I would desist using tuneup. Programs like this can cause more problems than you started with.

If you really feel the need to have a cleanup then use the free version of this; http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

As the machine is only 3 days old, I don't think this will solve much. Perhaps returning the machine under the warranty is the better option.

Mike

My last post is probably best suted for people with AMD graphics cards not Nvidia 650M graphics cards even so i imagine the Nv650M has Software suited for the same purpose, changing Orientation in Screen Resolution menu but i'll see if i can figure out an other way.

The Nvidia 650 and Intel HD 4000 isn't that two Graphics Cards, i'm not much of an expert on whether two Graphics Cards can be run at the same time but if that is the case there must be some sort of compatability issue i'd think, try disabling one of them its that or a drivers issue. Try switching your computer off/on.

I have found out you can run two Graphics Cards at the same time which would be good if you want to run more than two monitors, but it could be the reason for the rotate problem just disable one and see what happans.

I already have CCleaner installed and I've been using it from the start. Not that much help to this issue I think.
I tried uninstalling and reinstall Nvidia drivers but got the same results :(
Intel HD 4000 is Ivy Bridge integrated graphic card. Nvidia 650m have optimus technology which automatically switch between the two so there's hardly any chance that there's compatibility issue.
This isn't a faulty machine as far as I know. People with HP Pavilion Dv6-7000 are suffering from the same problem as well.
Wow everybody 've been a great help! Thanks for all the repies!
Any other solutions or work-around?
As I've mentioned before, I mostly work with Firefox when the screen needs to be rotated so if there's any add-on that can archive the same thing it's fine too. Or you can add to my greasemonkey code above to somehow solve the problem.