OK, just tried Manjaro.....
Note to self....add to
#ListOfDistrosThatBootToDesktopButCrashWhenTryToRotateDisplay.......
Sigh....................
Good news, Manjaro booted up to desktop.....
Bad news is it crashed (screen turned black....) when I rotated display in Display Settings....
Guess next one up is Arch......
Hi Mark,
I would be very happy to help but I do not have one yet and they are on pre-order...also I like to see this issue solved first before ordering one.
What kernel is Manajaro booting and can you attach the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and a dmesg right after boot ?
If it boots up to Xorg, does it show the desktop rotated using all of the available screen or just a part in the middle ?
Also can you SSH to the box and troubleshoot, eg dmesg and /var/log/xorg.0.log after you rotated ? Does it freeze the thing after the screen goes black?
Cheers!
That's very nice of you, Greg......
Don't know what kernel Manjaro is booting, but suppose I can find out.....
I can try to attach the log and dmesg info.....if I boot it up again....
It booted up to XFCE desktop.....problem is it shown sideways in portrait mode, since display itself is what I presume is a phone or tablet display unit, not a laptop unit. Assume this was a cost saving measure since display is 5.5".....
What I saw on desktop is the taskbar at bottom with the menu button at left end of bar, but remember it is turned sideways....rest of desktop looks OK, just very tall and narrow.
After screen turns black the device does not respond to anything I do. Only thing I can do is shut it down by pressing power button until it turns off.
Was going to try out Arch now, as one person blogged about getting it to display properly....and we all like Arch, right?......
See:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gpdwin/comments/5a...on_the_gpd_win/UPDATE
Tried Arch but after grub screen, I see a few lines of text in console and then doesn't get any further.....
Still can't understand why I have so much trouble and at least a few people have been successful in rotating display........