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Dell Inspiron 13 5000 does not rotate screen #158

Closed Windsurfer01 closed 7 years ago

Windsurfer01 commented 7 years ago

I downloaded and installed iio-sensor-proxy. I also had to load some dependencies. The sensor was then reported. I have simple keystroke commands to rotate screen. I have gnome and ubuntu [Edit: delete 16.04] 16.10 installed, with kernel 4.8.0.44.

In /sys/bus/acpi/devices/smo8810:00/subsystem/drivers only smo8800 is referred to.

I am happy to run any tests, provided I am given enough guidance.

bravnsgaard commented 7 years ago

I too have a new Inspiron 13 5000. I'm running Linux Mint Serena (18.1) with a 4.10 series kernel. I do see rotation, but the rotation is consistently wrong. Running monitor-sensor shows that I have bottom-up when I rotate the screen 90 degrees clockwise, and I get right-up when I have the screen in normal orientation. I first suspected that this was a Cinnamon problem, but the output from monitor-sensor suggests that it is either the accelerometer itself or iio-sensor-proxy. Cinnamon just reacts (correctly) to the signal it receives.

I read somewhere that iio-sensor-proxy has problems with kernels above 4.7?

I too am willing to do some testing if needed.

jrbenito commented 7 years ago

Samething here, Linux Mint Serena and Inspiron 13 5000 (5368). I can test too.

Summary:

  1. Kernel 4.4 no accelerometer
  2. Kernel 4.8 accel but not rotate (@windsurger01)
  3. Kernel 4.10 accel and rotation but orientation is off by +90° (clockwise)
Windsurfer01 commented 7 years ago

I tried Ubuntu 17.4. The accelerometer was detected and the screen appeared to rotate correctly. I no longer have Ubuntu installed, so can't verify it. I'll try kernel 4.10 and report back.

Windsurfer01 commented 7 years ago

I have installed kernel 4.10.0-20 with no problems yet. I then used the following script http://www.androidtablets.net/threads/rotating-screen-touchpad-on-linux.33309/ I changed 'ILITEK ILITEK Multi-Touch' to 'Raydium Corporation Raydium Touch System' to suit the Dell Inspiron 13 5000. I got this info from xinput --list. It works well. However: 1) If the panel is set to autohide it is not possible to access the onscreen keyboard. This is because the panel will not show itself. (It may be that I have missed something and am not swiping properly.) 2) The main keyboard remains active. The modified script is attached. I will look for solutions to the above problems.

Windsurfer01 commented 7 years ago

The output from xinput --list was:= as below.

mike@mike-Inspiron-13-5378 ~ $ xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Raydium Corporation Raydium Touch System id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ DELL0740:00 06CB:7E7E Touchpad id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=16 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Integrated_Webcam_HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Intel Virtual Button driver id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Intel HID events id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=15 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]

I am now trying to get a response from iio-sensor-proxy.

jrbenito commented 7 years ago

@Windsurfer01

How did you make virtual keyboard work? (and which one are you using?)

I put a script to rotate screen and touchpad too.

thanks

jrbenito commented 7 years ago

Ah, in the meantime, if I understood the issue correctly, iio-sensor-proxy is not culprit of wrong report. The newer systemd makes use of a correction matrix for the accel that would correct output to iio-sensor-proxy. However, Mint is two version behind (since it is based on Ubuntu 16,04). Actually Ubuntu 17,04 might have the newer version of systemd and the sensor correction for any device is a matter of config file.

Windsurfer01 commented 7 years ago

The on-screen keyboard appears at the bottom of the rotated screen if System Settings|Panel|Auto-hide panel is set to 'Intelligently hide panel'. I am using Linux Mint 18.1 Serena 64 bit with Cinnamon 3.2.7 and kernel 4.10.0-20.

Where can I find the config file? I am happy to experiment.

Windsurfer01 commented 7 years ago

The script I used and a screen shot are attached. The script is a mash-up of various other scripts, including yours. The keyboard is the default one. I do not know of any others. I tried to activate arrow keys but it did not work. image rotate.txt

hadess commented 7 years ago

This really isn't the place to discuss on-screen keyboards. Reopen a new issue and keep it on subject if you still have problems, after having checked the minimum requirements in the README.