Can't set touchscreen

[ngharrison]

I just installed rot8 through the rot8-git AUR package. Upon trying rot8 --touchscreen "ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82", it hangs and never finishes it doesn't rotate the screen (I misunderstood). Is there something I'm missing?

[xnghu]

I am experiencing the same thing, will let you know if I find out anything / get it to work

[xnghu]

@ngharrison I got it to work by getting the name for my touchscreen device with: xinput list

then running: rot8 --touchscreen "<name of my touchscreen>" worked as expected

[ngharrison]

@xnghu Yes, that's what I did as well. I'm not 100% sure that I've picked the right one though since none of them say anything about a screen. My output from xinput list:

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Asus Keyboard id=10 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Asus Keyboard id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82 id=14 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ELAN1201:00 04F3:3098 Mouse id=16 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ELAN1201:00 04F3:3098 Touchpad id=17 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Asus Keyboard id=19 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82 Stylus Pen (0) id=23 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82 Stylus Eraser (0) id=24 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Lid Switch id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Asus Keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam: USB2.0 HD id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82 Stylus id=15 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=18 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Asus Keyboard id=20 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Asus Keyboard id=21 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Asus Keyboard id=22 [slave keyboard (3)]

[ngharrison]

With the new update giving a useful error message and looking into the code, I found that my accelerometer can't be found. Somehow my entire /sys/bus/iio/ directory disappeared. I know it existed before because I had a different auto-rotate package working a week ago. Not sure how to get it back, but this issue is resolved.

[ngharrison]

I've fixed my accelerometer problem -- the /sys/bus/iio/ directory exists again and I can monitor rotation changes using monitor-sensor in iio-sensor-proxy. But auto-rotate still doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong with the name? I checked using udevadm info --export-db and "ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82" has ID_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN=1. I also tested it with all other possible names listed in xinput list for fun but no change.

The command I'm using: rot8 --toucscreen "ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82"

[ngharrison]

The name I was using for the touchscreen was correct. In the end, it wasn't working because the values weren't normalized appropriately for my machine. Mine needed rot8 --normalization-factor 10 --touchscreen "ELAN9008:00 04F3:2C82". This is resolved.