[WLUG] screen rotated

[Jason Young]

I tried that with a co-worker. Didn't work.

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:24 AM Dayringer, Charles <dayringer at izzy.net>
wrote:

> 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>
> <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> <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> <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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