On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 09:06:28AM -0700, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > Hi > > I have a Lenovo Ideapad where the screen is rotated 90 degrees and I > can't rotate it to landscape mode until I'm in X. How many of you are in > the same situation and would like a fix? Seeing how development is going > with small (tiny) computers it will probably be more and more common > with ultra portables having a "phone screen" which most likely is in > portrait mode by default. This also applies to embedded and home brew / > prototype devices. > > It would certainly be nice if we could have a boot time parameter that > could rotate the framebuffer (just as a data point, I'm pretty sure > Linux can do this). How many would be interested in this? Is there > anyone working on this atm? Not sure I will have the time to develop > this all of my own but thought I'd check the interest at least. Perhaps > a GSoC project? > This is an issue on the GPD Pocket and many other devices that use a tablet screen. A boot parameter for this would be fine, Linux does it with a parameter. A quick search shows it is probably: 'fbcon=rotate:1' I think you could probably detect that the dimensions are swapped, i.e. taller than you are wide, but there should still be a parameter to allow manual config. - [tj]Received on Fri May 03 2019 - 06:08:14 UTC
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