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poptart

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Registered: 2025-07-14

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KDE+Wayland Autorotate for 2-in-1 Laptop

Hello!

I'm trying to get my HP Omnibook Ultra working in tablet/touch mode. So far, KDE does recognize when I have the keyboard folded back, but no matter what the screen will not rotate. Online, I've found various resources insisting that a large assortment of AUR packages is necessary, or, contradictorily, that it should work out of the box.

I am using KDE Plasma 6.4.2, Kernel 6.15.6-arch1-1, and have installed iio-sensor-proxy (which did not fix the problem)

Please advise how I might debug this, or what the up-to-date solution is.

sipak

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Registered: 2019-02-03

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Re: KDE+Wayland Autorotate for 2-in-1 Laptop

It should work out of the box if the sensor works correctly. Try enabling or disabling the "only in tablet mode" option, since some sensors fail to pass that click.
If that fails, then yes, your specific case may require a bunch of work.

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aarch_angel

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Re: KDE+Wayland Autorotate for 2-in-1 Laptop

I was able to get autorotation working on my HP Omnibook Ultra by extracting the Intel ISH firmware from the windows driver and copying it under /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ish/ - I made a github repo detailing how I fixed it, hopefully it helps!

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Everything2067

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Registered: 2025-06-29

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Re: KDE+Wayland Autorotate for 2-in-1 Laptop

I was able to get autorotation working on my HP Omnibook Ultra by extracting the Intel ISH firmware from the windows driver and copying it under /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ish/ - I made a github repo detailing how I fixed it, hopefully it helps!

You should add this fix in the wiki instead: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/HP, not a GH repo.

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aarch_angel

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Re: KDE+Wayland Autorotate for 2-in-1 Laptop

I was able to get autorotation working on my HP Omnibook Ultra by extracting the Intel ISH firmware from the windows driver and copying it under /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ish/ - I made a github repo detailing how I fixed it, hopefully it helps!

You should add this fix in the wiki instead: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/HP, not a GH repo.

I'm new to the forums and I've never contributed to the wiki before, so it didn't occur to me - thanks for the tip

This method is broadly applicable to any recent intel system, not just HP devices. I actually got it from a github repo detailing compatibility for an Asus Zenbook. Would putting information on the fix under the Tablet PC wiki page be more appropriate?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: KDE+Wayland Autorotate for 2-in-1 Laptop

HP seems to list the omnibooks as  laptops, not tablet pcs so stick with that.

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