<div dir="ltr">I tried that with a co-worker. Didn't work.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:24 AM Dayringer, Charles <<a href="mailto:dayringer@izzy.net">dayringer@izzy.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="+1">Finally got frustrated this morning & gave the
thing a good WHACK. Been stable for 15 whole minutes now!<br>
-cd<br>
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<div class="m_8619811013950016125moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-05-10 10:17 PM, Victor Kareh
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<p dir="ltr">LMAO!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sorry, you must be frustrated about this, but I
couldn't resist laughing at your last post. The whole thing
seems comically absurd :/</p>
<p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<div class="m_8619811013950016125quote">On May 10, 2018 9:44 PM, "Dayringer, Charles"
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<div> <font size="+1">Now, in the middle of me typing this,
it just flipped to be sideways right, then flipped back
sideways left.<br>
Weird.<br>
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I tried:<br>
xrandr -o normal<br>
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)<br>
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I just hope I don't have to do this too often...<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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)<br>
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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? <br>
OOOF! Sideways again!!! F**K!<br>
-cd<br>
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<pre>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" <a href="mailto:dayringer@Izzy.net" target="_blank"><dayringer@Izzy.net></a> wrote:
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<pre>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@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@sunfish:~$
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<pre>Nice. Would you mind posting the output for `xrandr`? I've never seen this issue.On May 10, 2018 7:15 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <a href="mailto:dayringer@izzy.net" target="_blank"><dayringer@izzy.net></a> wrote:
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<pre>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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