Rotating Display again..

BKeyport

@n6ng Sounds like you have a raspberry pi 4.

With those, there is a screen configuration app in the desktop menu, under settings. You’ll need to rotate the screen there, and deal with the CLI interface being wrong way.

For Raspberry 4 as of Nov 2020:

Click Raspberry Logo in the top left corner (open application menu)
Select “Preferences” -> “Screen Configuration”. A new window “Screen Layout Editor” will be opened.
In the new window menu, select “Configure” -> “Screen” -> “HDMI-1” -> Orientation

N6NG

@bkeyport Nope… I’m using a Raspberry Pi 3B+
I will try what you suggested and see if it works for the Pi 3…
Thanks
Dennis

sdetweil

@n6ng you did do

display_rotate=

right all lower case

N6NG

@sdetweil No Sam… I did display_rotate=1 and that didn’t do anything… I just tried the display_rotate=right and rebooted and that didn’t rotate the screen either…
Dennis N6NG

N6NG

@n6ng I guess what I need to do is see a config.txt that actually works and I can see what is different from the one I’m using. If someone could post it here so I can see it. I can do the comparison. Thanks again… especially to Sam whose script to install the magicmirror worked flawlessly… Great aid in getting it up and running.
Dennis N6NG

BKeyport

@n6ng are you using bullseye?

cat /etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

If so, there appears to be a bug with legacy rotation. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade and try again.

They’ve done all sorts of major switching around with the new OS.

N6NG

@bkeyport I am running bullseye and I did the update and upgrade as suggested and a reboot but it didn’t change the rotation… I did the display_rotate=right and them rebooted… Still horizontal display after being rebooted…
Thanks for the suggestion though … at least I know I’m up to date…
Dennis N6NG

BKeyport

@n6ng

I do believe the command is still numeric.

N6NG

@bkeyport Well I tried both ways display_rotate=right and display_rotate=1. Neither caused the screen to rotate… that’s what makes me think I’m missing something else… Don’t have the foggiest idea what it might be…
Dennis

BKeyport

@n6ng Last ditch for Bullseye:

try each one of these.

display_hdmi_rotate=1
xrandr -output HDMI-1 -rotate right
lcd_rotate=1

If it don’t work, downloading stretch and starting over might be the only option.