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Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: offroadgeek on November 19, 2003, 11:23:20 pm

so I have the ROM loaded on my 760, but I can\'t figure out how to change the display from portrait to landscape.

anyone else figure this out yet?

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: jchung on November 23, 2003, 09:25:57 am

dont you mean landscape to portrait ?

I have mine in landscape mode and when i rotate the screen to PDA/5500 style (portrait) it does nothing.


another thing.. how do you right click ??

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: offroadgeek on November 23, 2003, 01:28:10 pm

no, for some reason when I had x11 on my 760, the display was only in portrait... I wanted it to be in landscape, but couldn\'t figure how to change it.

good question about the right click... don\'t know... I\'m sure much will be cleared up once Sash officially releases the ROM...

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: jchung on November 24, 2003, 12:02:23 am

Quote

no, for some reason when I had x11 on my 760, the display was only in portrait... I wanted it to be in landscape, but couldn\'t figure how to change it.

good question about the right click... don\'t know... I\'m sure much will be cleared up once Sash officially releases the ROM...

that is strange!

I wonder why that\'s like that..

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: offroadgeek on November 26, 2003, 05:41:40 pm

I have no idea... but I just re-flashed it, and it\'s working properly in landscape (laptop) mode.  yeay!

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: enki on November 29, 2003, 05:31:05 pm

the key to rotation in x is the /usr/X11R6/bin/xrandr command ...

$ xrandr -o left
the above command will rotate the screen into \"portrait\" mode, ie default for 5500 serioes

$ xrandr -o normal
this one will put it back in \"landscape\" mode, ie default for 7x0 series

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: VeeDubb on December 12, 2003, 12:29:01 am

I know it would be REALY easy to make a shell script to do this, how hard would it be to make cause the script to be activated when you rotate the screan?  Then it would work just like the qtopia rom, and that would be fantastic.

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: eferrari on March 24, 2004, 01:45:22 pm

Sorry to dig up an extremely old post, but from what I am reading recently, there is still no automatic rotating in the X ROM. I am curious why the suggestion above never got implemented? (in other words, is it a technical reason?)

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: ScottYelich on March 24, 2004, 02:31:22 pm

I believe it\'s been tested and now works with the ati drivers.
there is a c program out there that will detect the screen rotation

it could be made automatic.... but just hasn\'t.  I\'m sure it will come eventually.

Scott

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: dahukanna on March 25, 2004, 01:22:17 pm

the key to rotation in x is the /usr/X11R6/bin/xrandr command ...
$ xrandr -o left
the above command will rotate the screen into \"portrait\" mode, ie default for 5500 serioes
$ xrandr -o normal
this one will put it back in \"landscape\" mode, ie default for 7x0 series

Has any one got this to work ?
I get an error message from the console :
\"Can\'t open display (null)\"

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: zonyl on March 25, 2004, 11:07:06 pm

xrandr -o left --display 127.0.0.1:0.0 ?

Title: display in landscape mode?
Post by: dahukanna on March 26, 2004, 08:23:37 am

No joy