Blank screen after rotating the display in Yosemite (MacBook Pro Late 2013)

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Blank screen after rotating the display in Yosemite (MacBook Pro Late 2013)

Hi,

after installing Yosemite on my MacBook Pro 15" Late 2013 I have trouble rotating it's screen. After I launch Preferences and click Displays while pressing alt and command keys I see the list of possible orientations available.

If I now select 270° the screen immediately goes black. To be clear: The display is not turned off like when the MacBook sleeps. It's still lit, but only shows a black screen. After turning the MacBook off by pressing and holding the power button I can boot and voilà, the screen is perfectly normal, showing everything rotated at 270°. If I reset to Landscape from there (i. e. 0°), I have no problem at all, everything still works. Setting it back to 270° again lets the screen go black again.

I have an installation of Mavericks at my primary partition and it has no problems at all with rotation. Is this a known bug or can anyone confirm this behaviour?

As a hint for others suffering the same problem: You can get around the hard reset by pressing shift-comand-q followed by enter key. This logs your user out of the system and gets you back to the login screen. This obviously kind of reinitializes the UI. After that, the display's rotation is working and you just have to login again.

Even if this is some kind of workaround it would still be much more convenient not requiring this workaround.

Thanks in advance,

Oliver

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 4:30 AM

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Oct 20, 2014 4:02 PM in response to OliK79

Hi,

I had the same problem with rotation of 90 degree.

Also I noticed that when rotated the screen is not recognized as a retina display so all the UI is rendered very small making the system very difficult to use.

Thanks

L.

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OliK79 Author

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Oct 20, 2014 11:22 PM in response to Luca Albertalli

Hi,

yes, I had the same issues here! My solution was to force the system to use the discrete graphics card instead of the intel one. Then you get some additional options for the resolution which are much more usable. If you need further infos let me know. I'm using the MacBook in a rotated state about 95% of the time and it works pretty well now (at least in Mavericks, where I also experience your described behaviour).

Greetings,

Oliver

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begemot2

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Jan 28, 2015 9:05 AM in response to OliK79

Hi I know this is an old thread, but I did not see a more recent one and didn't want to start a new one with this already out here.

I have had this problem on Yosemite with my MacBook Pro and it is quite frustrating as I frequently rotate the display. I have been using the workaround you suggested of the force logout, but this is something of a nuisance.

Is the best solution still to "force the system to use the discrete graphics card instead of the intel one"? If so, how does one do this?

Thanks in advance.

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Answer 4

Apr 8, 2015 12:07 AM in response to OliK79

HHi, I tried logging out, pretty sure I managed to log out, cuz I can see the trackpad pointer again, but I didn't get to the login screen,

i got this instead, any clue what to do?

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TomK2434

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Apr 18, 2015 10:26 PM in response to ararar010101

plugging in an external monitor briefly also gets it to kick in without having to relog in.

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JDON

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Aug 1, 2015 11:22 PM in response to OliK79

Same happened to me on yosemite/2015mbpr

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jO2121

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Jul 11, 2017 5:46 AM in response to OliK79

Same problem on MBP 2017 13" OS Sierra

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Answer 8

Jul 23, 2017 1:38 PM in response to OliK79

Thank you!!! I am in the middle of several pieces of work for my mother's funeral service and the panic I just experienced was unnerving. Your solution worked "T H A N K Y O U".

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