[WLUG] screen rotated

[Dayringer, Charles]

Finally got frustrated this morning & gave the thing a good WHACK. Been 
stable for 15 whole minutes now!
-cd


On 2018-05-10 10:17 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:
>
> LMAO!
>
> Sorry, you must be frustrated about this, but I couldn't resist 
> laughing at your last post. The whole thing seems comically absurd :/
>
> So thinking about this, you might be right about hardware problem... 
> Some laptops have a function key at the top to either rotate or cycle 
> through screens (for projectors). Try to find that key. Maybe it's sticky?
>
> On May 10, 2018 9:44 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <dayringer at Izzy.net> wrote:
>
>     Now, in the middle of me typing this, it just flipped to be
>     sideways right, then flipped back sideways left.
>     Weird.
>
>     I tried:
>     xrandr -o normal
>     and it did flip back to normal (took me a few tries - I had to
>     look up xrandr --help to get the correct command, and typing with
>     my head twisted sideways had me making errors)
>
>     I just hope I don't have to do this too often...
>
>     Yeah, this is a new clean install - I normally use Ubuntu Studio,
>     as I like xfce, but thought I'd try the new gnome thing.
>
>     The only thing I can think of is that I installed
>     gnome-shell-extensions because it was supposed to allow me to try
>     different gnome themes (but it didn't - that option is still
>     grayed out in the settings, so maybe something went wrong with that)
>
>     D'oh! Just flipped upside down. Damn. I saw the sideways thing a
>     couple of times with my Ubuntu Studio login page lately, but never
>     once it got going. Maybe it's a hardware problem?
>     OOOF! Sideways again!!! F**K!
>     -cd
>
>
>
>     On 2018-05-10 09:11 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:
>
>         Yeah that checks... Try running `xrandr --rotate normal`. It _should_ go back to normal. But we need to figure out what's making it do that.
>
>         It almost sounds like dbus is reporting your screen to be rotated, and the gnome settings daemon (you're using gnome I assume?) is triggering the randr plugin to refresh its config.
>
>         Is this a clean install?
>
>         I couldn't find anything obvious on launchpad, so maybe a stray key binding?On May 10, 2018 7:31 PM, "Dayringer, Charles"<dayringer at Izzy.net> <mailto:dayringer at Izzy.net>  wrote:
>
>             sometimes it blanks out & then goes upside down for a bit, then blanks
>             out & goes back sideways.
>             when I go to the display settings, there is no option for rotation,
>             although there is supposed to be.
>             -cd
>
>             charles at sunfish:~$ sudo xrandr
>             [sudo] password for charles:
>             Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 900 x 1600, maximum 16384 x 16384
>             eDP connected primary 900x1600+0+0 left (normal left inverted right x
>             axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm
>                 1600x900      60.00*+  40.00
>                 1440x900      59.99
>                 1280x854      59.95
>                 1280x800      59.96
>                 1280x720      59.97
>                 1152x768      59.95
>                 1024x768      59.95
>                 800x600       59.96
>                 848x480       59.94
>                 720x480       59.94
>                 640x480       59.94
>             HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>             charles at sunfish:~$
>
>
>
>
>             On 2018-05-10 07:25 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:
>
>                 Nice. Would you mind posting the output for `xrandr`? I've never seen this issue.On May 10, 2018 7:15 PM, "Dayringer, Charles"<dayringer at izzy.net> <mailto:dayringer at izzy.net>  wrote:
>
>                     I have installed ubuntu 18.04, it was working fine for a day, but now when I start up, I log in ok, it appears normal for about a minute, then rotates 90 degrees left, making it nearly impossible to use.
>                     What happened?
>                     HP pavilion laptop - I've been running various distros fine on this machine for a couple of years, I don't know how to get it to stay horizontal. What can I do?
>                     -cd
>
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