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    How do I now Rotate display ?

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    • K Offline
      Knapoc
      last edited by

      @johnnyboy said in How do I now Rotate display ?:

      Still need to figuire out how to rotate the screen though.

      What GL driver are you using? I’m currently having rotation issues with the fkms (fake) one, which is usually done by editing /boot/config.txt.

      Now I switched to the full kms one and the solution you just tried works… You can change the driver via /boot/config.txt:

      dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
      

      or by choosing it in sudo raspi-config.

      The wiki-page also states, that the default location for autostart file changed:

      To do so, edit the autostart file: (autostart file has been moved in the latest version of Raspbian Stretch, Version: April 2019, Release Date: 2019-04-08 Kernel: 4.14 to /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

      Even though I have a fresh stretch install (last week), I cannot confirm that the location changed - I set the rotation config as mentioned in my previous post.

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        evroom
        last edited by

        This topic discusses an alternative way to rotate the screen:

        https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/9707/save-performance-when-rotating-screen-e-g-on-raspberry-pi?page=1

        It worked for me.

        MagicMirror version: 2.30.0
        Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (8 GB RAM)
        Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

        Test environment:
        MagicMirror version: v2.30.0
        Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 (1 GB RAM)
        Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

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        • johnnyboyJ Offline
          johnnyboy @Knapoc
          last edited by

          @Knapoc said in How do I now Rotate display ?:

          @johnnyboy said in How do I now Rotate display ?:

          Still need to figuire out how to rotate the screen though.

          What GL driver are you using?

          G1 GL (Full KMS) OpenGL desktop driver with full KMS

          Now I switched to the full kms one and the solution you just tried works…

          Tried everything above again, but… Still will not rotate, and again lost PM2?.. All very strange… Maybe needs a bug fix of sorts? ( display_rotate=1 in sudo nano /boot/config.txt was soooooo perfect )

          Will now try the Custom CSS approach and see if that will be any better?

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          • johnnyboyJ Offline
            johnnyboy @evroom
            last edited by

            @evroom said in How do I now Rotate display ?:

            This topic discusses an alternative way to rotate the screen:

            https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/9707/save-performance-when-rotating-screen-e-g-on-raspberry-pi?page=1

            It worked for me.

            Thanks… will play around with that and see if that helps… Strange why doing what I did above shuts down PM2 though?

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              johnnyboy @evroom
              last edited by

              @evroom said in How do I now Rotate display ?:

              This topic discusses an alternative way to rotate the screen:

              https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/9707/save-performance-when-rotating-screen-e-g-on-raspberry-pi?page=1

              It worked for me.

              Thanks… ^^^ This worked for me too now.
              Appreciate all the help on this guys.

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                Knapoc @Knapoc
                last edited by

                to add to my latest post:

                so if you add an autostart file under ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/ the default file located under /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart is overridden for the user. Since I had a user-config the changes applied in the default file had no effect. See this post for reference.

                To summarise the following configuration works in my case.

                ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart:

                # hide mouse pointer when idle
                @unclutter -display :0 -idle 3 -root -noevents
                # rotate display by 90 degrees
                @xrandr --output HDMI-1 --rotate right
                

                (I opted for this way, since I don’t want to load the desktop ui)

                /boot/config.txt (snippet):

                # MagicMirror configuration
                disable_splash=1
                avoid_warnings=1
                dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
                gpu_mem=128
                

                Make sure that there’s no dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3dentry or comment it.

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                  tisnatch
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                  Just tried this. It seems the fkms + display_rotate no longer works. There are some comments about in the rpi forums too, like this one:
                  https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=246146

                  Using the kms driver plus the edits to the autostart file worked for me. Is there a way to get an official update to the documentation?

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