[LUNI] Upside down windows (OT)

James Anderson jpa at sack.dreamhost.com
Tue Apr 6 09:00:47 CDT 2004


I have, it was an old Joke/Virus called Austrailia that will do this.
That is the only reasonal explaination for what is happening that
I know of. Otherwise never heard of or encountered this before. I also
googled this problem and that came up emtpy other than inverted colors.

Jim

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 RCRamsdell at gldd.com wrote:

> This is off topic, but so strange I thought I'd throw it out here.
>
> Has anyone ever encountered upside down displays in Windows?  Our
> secretary has on two occasions turned on her computer to find the entire
> display shown upside down on the monitor. The mouse works accordingly
> (i.e. moving it up moves the pointer down on the screen and vice-versa).
> I've never heard of this before, and evidently neither has our IT guy,
> whose solution is to re-install the video drivers (it works).
>
> Back on topic, is this possible with X?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert C. Ramsdell III
> Senior Production Engineer
> Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company
> 2122 York Road
> Oakbrook, IL 60523
> Phone: (630) 574-3463
> Fax: (630) 574-2909
> e-mail: rcramsdell at gldd.com
>
>


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