Radius Color Pivot monitor not pivoting

[elemenoh]

Finally got around to checking the pins. This is the best I could do. Some didn't map.

 

[jjclay]

Thanks for posting this. I have an old colour pivot display but no cable, and can’t find an OEM cable at a reasonable cost so will break out the soldering iron and try to make one. Has anyone else followed the above wiring diagram and achieved success?

 

[d3jsp]

Thanks!! That looks a lot like vga pinout. Will this monitor display anything with a vga signal and cable?

 

[Guy Madison]

I have a Radius Color Pivot monitor connected to a Quadra 950 with a Radius 8-24X card. The Quadra is running System 7.5 with RadiusWare 3.4 which contains Dynamic Desktop 1.42.

The monitor is recognized and displays okay. Dynamic Desktop recognizes both the built-in video at Slot 0 and the Radius PrecisionColor 8-24X card in Slot A. The Monitors control panel recognizes the monitor as "Portrait / Pivot".

When I rotate the monitor, it makes the degaussing ping, but the orientation on screen is not changed.

From what I read about this *Color* Pivot is that it doesn't require a special card to do its pivot magic. It's all supposed to be in software. So, for anyone who knows about these, what else should I try to get it working? Different version of RadiusWare?

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Odd that it was in software, I always thought that the yoke were changed to make it work in portrait.

I wrote the original portrait display mechanism that is used in all display drivers today back in 1998.. it was called Appian Rotate.

I owned the mac driver at the time but I was in business development.. I could actually talk to people. We had a customer (HSBC) that wanted to buy 100,000 display cards, one on left portrait one on right for landscape. Our software team was working on a NT4 driver that used software for the rotate... it was about 6 months along.

One day I came into work and wrote the driver in about 30 minutes on the Mac 9600 in my office. The system was drawing everything offscreen, then on VSYNC I would use the 3D engine to do a texture BLIT using two triangles drawn onscreen with the offscreen as a texture source to rotate the data into a displayable format that worked with the hardware.

It worked perfectly, it worked so well I could do real time video.. I showed it off to the engineering managers and they were impressed, the next day I was told to stay out of the software area because there were a few pissed off people at me, for showing them up.

The company had a RIF at some point later and the technology ended up in other vendors drivers, how do I know? I worked at Apple and had access to all of their drivers and the code was exactly the same. Within 6 months of the RIF ATI and nVidia both had hardware portrait.

Thats the end of the story, I still walk by portrait displays and say to myself.. I invented that.