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gribblygook

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Registered: 2018-08-12

Posts: 23

[SOLVED] Display rotated at boot up

Hey, I'm running arch on a new tablet style machine and whenever it's booting up the screen is rotated 90 degrees to the right. After logging in to i3 I can set it correctly with

   

xrandr -o left

I don't have a xinit file or system settings application as has been solved here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192355

Thanks

Last edited by gribblygook (2019-05-26 12:51:43)

gribblygook

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Registered: 2018-08-12

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] Display rotated at boot up

Solved it using this https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tallscreen_Monitor
Specifically this part:

To perform the same rotation with GRUB-2, append fbcon=rotate:1 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable in /etc/default/grub and execute the grub2-mkconfig command:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

The screen should be reoriented on the next boot, assuming the kernel has been compiled with rotation support.

However even though i was using grub2 I had to change grub2 in the code to grub.

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

idiotz

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2014-03-22

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] Display rotated at boot up

Hi, thanks for pointing `fbcon` to me. I have a question regarding the kernel: when you say

assuming the kernel has been compiled with rotation support

does that mean I'd need to use a different kernel than the standard one? e.g. linux-fbcondecor from the AUR

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: [SOLVED] Display rotated at boot up

This thread is over two years old, and the OP has not been back since 2019. Please do not necrobump.

Closing.