Author Topic: Screen Orientation (Read 4430 times)

Anonymous · « **on:** January 15, 2004, 06:22:40 pm »

Perhaps some of you are familiar with the ability the Tungsten 3 has to switch between portrat and landscape screen orientations. I know that this is also possible to achieve on many Ipaqs using additional software. Is there anything out there that would enable this to be done on the Zaurus? Specifically the SL-5600.

VeeDubb · « **Reply #1 on:** January 15, 2004, 07:16:58 pm »

Yup, lot\'s of things.

You have 3 options.

1. Install the qtopia screan rotation app. Requires that you restart qtopia for changes to take effect, but that\'s only about 15 seconds.

2. Install some ROM using OPIE instead of qtopia, OpenZaurus is the best, but there are others, and i\'m not sure about the working status of OZ on the 5600, there\'ve been mixed reports. 2 advantages here, opie kicks ass, and the screan rotation will work on the fly.

3. Becaome a Zaurus hack master and manualy install qtopia 1.6.2 or 1.7.0 to your 5600 which has the same \'on the fly\' rotation os opie, bad news is that this is difficult to do end even harder to do well.

Tehas · « **Reply #2 on:** January 15, 2004, 08:27:20 pm »

I have two packages installed, qpe-rotation & rotate. One adds an option to the \"start\" menu to rotate the entire QTopia environment, the other allows you to rotate the next program to be started. (The fast-load apps like calendar, contacts etc. can\'t be one-time rotated becaue they\'re always running.)

Anonymous · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2004, 08:23:53 pm »

for some reason these apps havent been working for me... I\'m using Qtopia 1.5.4, i select rotate from the start menu and the system merely reboots....

Anonymous · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2004, 09:03:55 pm »

Ok, I now have pin pointed which app is causing the problem, everytime I install qpe-rotation and try to use it, it sends my zaurus into an endless loop of reboots forcing me to flash the rom. Any ideas on how to install either of these correctly?

VeeDubb · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2004, 09:07:08 pm »

The easiest way is to ditch the sharp rom and intall OZ, it\'s a better roma on most every count and it has native rotation

Anonymous · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2004, 10:58:21 pm »

Ok, Problem solved. I\'ve gotten qtopia-rotation v 0.0.2 to work, the initial problem was the verison of the font that I had installed. First I installed qt-embedded-rotation_2.3.2-1 which did nothing, then I installed 2.3.2-4 which rotated the screen and made the Text upside down, not much functional usability, but it was kind of funny to look at. The fix was made by installing qt-embedded-rotation-fix_2.3.2-4 which is available from http://www.currybrothers.com/zaurus/sl5600...00_patches.html
If anyone else has the same problems that I ran into, hopefully this will help. Thanks for all of the feedback!

DrWowe · « **Reply #7 on:** January 27, 2004, 06:09:25 pm »

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3. Becaome a Zaurus hack master and manualy install qtopia 1.6.2 or 1.7.0 to your 5600 which has the same \'on the fly\' rotation os opie, bad news is that this is difficult to do end even harder to do well.

Can you elaborate on this? What\'s the source of the difficulty?

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