Video Card Wierdness

I was in SL editing an object, when all of the sudden my screen went black. After about a minute it all came back, except it came back completely upside-down, i.e. rotated 180 degrees. The keys I was pressing at the time were cntl-alt-up-arrow. My video card is an Intel 82865G, which has worked fine for the several weeks I have been on SL.

I found the setting for the video card to change it back to "rotated 0" degrees. I also found the setting to disable rotation period. I suppose it could have been the key sequence that triggered the rotation of my screen, but I had been using that key sequence many times before without problem.

Since I have fixed my problem of everything being upside down; I guess I am only posting this in case there is something in SL that might have caused the problem.

Cheers,
Sean Heavy

Intel cards aren't full featured graphics cards and arent' fully supported by SL. While SL may be running for you, it may not be glitch free. Recomend you go out and buy a new graphics card anyways, you can get a good GeForceFX 5500 256MB card pretty cheap these days and if you want something that'll last longer get a GeForce 6600GT card.

Agree with the 6600GTs, they are at a SWEET price spot. US$125 or maybe even less should get you one. For a few bucks more get a 6800GS if you can, but only if your CPU and rest of your setup is reasonably fast too and won't bottleneck (when your graphics card runs quickly but the rest of the system can't keep up) it too much.

With my Intel card, this is what messes with the screen:

CTRL-ALT-DOWN: Upside down screen
CTRL-ALT-UP: Rightside up screen

Strangely, I thought I had deactivated the feature, but I suppose it was default-reactivated when I downloaded new drivers.