On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 11:00 +0100, jdd wrote: > Hello, > > I try to install debian jessie on a windows 10 It Works TW891 tablet > (with attached keyboard) > > using the hybrid 32/64 bits dvd, I could install jessie with xfce. > > But... it's installed in portrait mode (the screen need to be seen > with > the longer size vertical), when the keyboard expect a lanscape mode, > so > it's really unfriendly :-). > > I could make the *initial terminal* (text mode), to display in the > right > position, adding to the grub2 kernel line: > > vga=791 > fbcon=rotate:1 > video=efifb > nomodeset > > may be one of these options is not right, but I couldn't test all. > not > the question here, probably. > > but as soon as X takes over, the screen fallback to portrait. > > xfce panel do not have any option other than "normal" for > orientation. > > video is intel vga (no other detail) > > xrandr --output default --rotate left > > fails with "cannot use rotation left" > > I could add a mode 1280x800 following > > http://dodin.info/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.AddXResolution > > but with "configure crtc 0 failed" > > any hint? > > thanks > jdd Can you double check that you're really running the Xorg intel driver and isn't getting fbdev or something similar? From what I can tell the rotate commands should work on other Bay Trail tablets running Linux, but with your manual framebuffer configuration I'm unsure if KMS and the intel driver would work? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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