No option for display rotation in extended monitor from my Macbook Pro (OS : Lion 10.7.5) after update from 10.7.4

Restore the backup you made before 10.7.5. There is obviously some standard your monitor does not support fully and now it is out of spec.

Having the same problem.

My external display is rotated to 90 degrees, but after the upgrade I have the following issues

1. The image is not rotated anymore. I have to turn the display back to it's normal landscape position.

2. The option to select the rotation in the Screen preference panel is gone.

3. The available resolutions for the external display are still the pivoted resolutions. I.e., instead of 1920x1200 (width x height) I have a 1200 x 1920 image on the screen, with a 720 px wide black area on the right, and anything below 1200px height cut off.

4. In the "About my Mac" tool, the display rotation is still shown as 90 degrees.

This renders the external screen completely unusable, as I can't neither switch the stored rotation back to normal, nor use it in portrait mode, as the pixels are not rotated anymore.

The display is made by Samsung, hope this does not affect it's usability with my Macs ;-)

i have the exact same problem on my iMac, also updated to 10.7.5. I also have the rotation 90 in system report > hardware > graphic/displays.

what's more, i also own a MBA which i updated to 10.7.5 as well on the same day, the monitor still has the rotation option when connected to my MBA...

it's a Dell U2311H monitor that's only 1 year old

brody, this is not true. please see my response to the original question. same OS, same monitor, works on MBA but not iMac

Apple hid the option for whatever reason in 10.7.5

To make Roate appear again close the system preference panel.

1. Hold Command + Option

2. Click on system preferences

3. Clock on displays

you should now see the option again - and you can release Command and Option keys.

Be ware tho! The option seems to be broken for A LOT of monitors (including my Cinema display) so you may still have the same result... Maybe that's why they hid it

just tried. did close sys pref panel, the held cmd+option the whole way until i reached display screen, but don't see the rotation option..

Well I found that the fix for me was to use http://www.madrau.com/download/latest/latest.html to fix the rotation to standard. I think the bug that apple introduced is that a non-standard rotation botches screen resolutions - so lame

Screen rotation was a hidden gem from that found its way into Mac OS X, which you needed special hardware before from Radius to get. Obviously, someone is dropping the ball now, and you probably will want to submit an Apple bug report by first signing up for the free online http://developer.apple.com account, and then submitting to http://bugreporter.apple.com/ I doubt though it would be fixed for 10.7 on 10.7.5 since 10.7.5 almost didn't get released. It is rare a free update is applied to change the version of a no longer curreent retail operating system. Still you never know, as the squeeky wheel often gets the greese.

tried that software and set to standard but still not working, the wallpaper got stretched to fill the whole screen but still it's rotated (and squashed of coz). tried other rotation settings and resolutions availble and no matter which combination i had, it's still rotated....

thanks for your suggestions anyways though. appreciate it! 🙂

Can confirm that holding command+option while opening the display settings does not reveal the rotation option.

Just submitted a bug report (no. 12385197).

A brody's statement is incorrect.

The command+option does not work.

scivi describes my issue exactly. Monitor is not usable in either orientation.

I have to use my other connector and other adapter to use DVI instead of VGA input. But I have to keep the monitor in landscape.

I created a ticket using the same info from SciVi, but for a 1600x1200 monitor.

12400454

Same issue here, rotate has worked on every version of OS on my Dell 2405fpw monitor since 10.2. This is pretty unacceptable.

@Christianmiles - agreed. I had to use the workaround to disable rotation so that I could use my 2nd monitor at all. This is kind of sad considering this was the OS for graphic designers and other video professionals. In particular I am pretty upset cuz I just invested in some nice monitor arms and vesa mounts for my Cinema displays 😟 I hope Apple fixes this soon. It *** bigtime