diff --git a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
index c0007cd3a5..77069c8a78 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
+++ b/legacy/ecore/ChangeLog
@@ -940,3 +940,9 @@
 2012-09-13  Mike Blumenkrantz
 
        * Return -1 for ecore_con_server_fd_get() in the case that the server has already been deleted
+
+2012-09-13  Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
+
+       * Fix ecore-evas rotation handling for canvases that shows up
+       only on some drivers and GL implementations.
+
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/NEWS b/legacy/ecore/NEWS
index 3104e07c72..0d626f6a0b 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/NEWS
+++ b/legacy/ecore/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Fixes:
     * ecore_con_url:
      - Timeouts are handled correctly now (passing HTTP status 408 to
        completion callback).
+    * ecore_evas rotation handling on some driver implementations
 
 Improvements:
 
diff --git a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_evas/ecore_evas_x.c b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_evas/ecore_evas_x.c
index bb95525030..1aa46a2f46 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_evas/ecore_evas_x.c
+++ b/legacy/ecore/src/lib/ecore_evas/ecore_evas_x.c
@@ -1616,6 +1616,8 @@ _ecore_evas_x_rotation_set_internal(Ecore_Evas *ee, int rotation, int resize,
                   ecore_x_window_resize(ee->prop.window, ee->req.h, ee->req.w);
                   ee->expecting_resize.w = ee->h;
                   ee->expecting_resize.h = ee->w;
+                  evas_output_size_set(ee->evas, ee->req.h, ee->req.w);
+                  evas_output_viewport_set(ee->evas, 0, 0, ee->req.h, ee->req.w);
                }
              else
                {