Zaurus Sl-c3000 S/w Rotation Broken [solved]

[zoxed]

My SL-C3000 has screwed itself up (or maybe I did it :-).

When I open it (landscape) it displays in portrait mode, then decides to rotate *part* of the screen to landscape *upsidedown*.

When I start an app it starts in portrait mode (even thought the screen is still physically in landscape) and works OK apart from that. But no way can I get back to using landscape mode.

The following do not work:
- reboot
- the rotate menu option
- an combination of opening and closing the lid, and physically rotating it.
- uninstalling most of the new s/w I had installed

I have not done many changes to the system: I have not touched the ROM, I have just imported my data, and installed a few extra programs: mplayer, kino2, ltris, brickout...

I have looked around the config files in /etc but can not find anything.

/home/zaurus/Settings/display.conf looked promising but editing it seems to make no difference.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks, Simon

[rebski]

Exactly the same thing happened to my C1000. In the end I restored it to its original factory state and started again.

[bam]

what about qpe.sh, startup script maybe something in there? Just guessaing at this point

[curiosity]

Hi,
i had the same problems, after watching a movie with kino 0.42p20 + bvdd my qpe crashed and the screenrotation was broken.

It seems that the /home/zaurus/Settings/qpe.conf is damaged by the crash.
There are three possibilities.
- first you'll try to repair your qpe.conf
- second you restore your old qpe.conf
- third you try the qpe.conf in this message

The interesting value is:
[Rotation]
HReverse = 1

When you're using the qpe.conf in the attachement, you'll have to make changes in your system like ApplicationKeys and the fastload-option.

Good Luck!!!

[zoxed]

Firstly thanks to those who replied.

- third you try the qpe.conf in this message

The interesting value is:
[Rotation]
HReverse = 1

I tried this first and it worked :-)))

For the record: my qpe.conf had the [Rotation] section in, but it was empty. So I added the "HReverse = 1" and saved the file. It does not take effect immediatly, but when I  physically rotated the screen to portrait it was read and took effect. I rotated the screen back to landscape and it works fine now :-)

(Feels strange: after a couple of weeks I had kind of gotten used to viewing the screen sideways as I typed.)

So it looks like a problem with kino2. I am off soon for a 3 week holiday soon (with my Zaurus :-) so I will not experiment yet to confirm this !!

[rebski]

My rotation problem has come back but this time it is frozen in portrait mode and the keyboard is locked.

I have checked for
[Rotation]
HReverse = 1
and tried the qpe.conf fix (thanks for that btw) but to no avail.

It looks like this device doesn’t like us tinkering with apps that are not optimised for it.

[mbagsh55]

Hi Rebski, is it only the physical keyboard that is locked, or the on-screen keyboard?  If it is the on-screen keyboard check that it hasn't switched to Japanese input  (mine suffered this problem).

Huge thanks to Curiosity,  
    Kino2 messed up my qpe.conf file exactly as you explained and I was getting more than a little anxious.  In my case it took two attempts at editing the conf file and I nearly blew it at one point by saving the conf file as Shift-JIS.

Any other newbie users, make sure you save it as UTF8 if you are using a GUI editor that performs code conversion.

I am now a happy bunny and can enjoy the rest of today's public holiday here in Singapore (Hari Raya).

Cheers,
Marcus