Need help: vertical screen rotation!

Martin Flöser mgraesslin at kde.org
Tue Nov 7 17:28:40 UTC 2017


Am 2017-11-07 18:27, schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> On maandag 6 november 2017 16:54:26 CET Martin Flöser wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am currently working on screen rotation on Wayland. Unfortunately my
>> systems do not support vertical rotation (rotate by 90 or 270
>> degrees). Thus I do not know whether my code works or what needs
>> fixing.
>> 
>> I need someone who has a system which supports vertical screens to
>> test my code and report back what works and what doesn't. Perfect
>> would be to be willing to test patches or even try some patches.
>> 
>> If you know someone with such a setup who might not read this mail:
>> please poke them. All required code is in current KWin master. The
>> rotation can be selected through KScreen KCM.
>> 
>> Please note that the system requires atomic modesetting support. This
>> might need to be activated in the kernel. For example in Ubuntu 16.04
>> with Intel driver it is not activated out of the box, on Debian
>> testing it is.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for the help!
>> 
>> Martin
> 
> upside down works, 90 and 270 do nothing on my system.
> 
> Debian Unstable
> Linux manta 4.13.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.13.4-1 (2017-10-01) x86_64
> GNU/ Linux
> 
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620
> (rev 02)
> 
> I think above satisfies the requirements for AMS? Anything I can test?

What about XRandr? Does XRandR support 90 or 270 on your system?

Cheers
Martin


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