* Screen rotation on the Raspberry Pi 4?
@ 2020-10-09 4:40 a
2020-10-09 5:04 ` [9fans] " Bakul Shah
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From: a @ 2020-10-09 4:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
It looks like graphics on the Pi 4 have changed more than I'd
realized. As far as I can tell, the "legacy" driver (what's
used on the 0-3) no longer offers screen rotation via the
display_rotate directive in config.txt.
Does anyone have rotation working on the Pi 4? If so, how?
Relatedly, anyone tried porting the bitsy's software rotation?
It's a lot more pixels to move around, but the cpu's also
worlds faster, so...?
Anthony
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* Re: [9fans] Screen rotation on the Raspberry Pi 4?
2020-10-09 4:40 Screen rotation on the Raspberry Pi 4? a
@ 2020-10-09 5:04 ` Bakul Shah
2020-10-09 17:36 ` a
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From: Bakul Shah @ 2020-10-09 5:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Oct 8, 2020, at 9:40 PM, a@9srv.net wrote:
>
> It looks like graphics on the Pi 4 have changed more than I'd
> realized. As far as I can tell, the "legacy" driver (what's
> used on the 0-3) no longer offers screen rotation via the
> display_rotate directive in config.txt.
>
> Does anyone have rotation working on the Pi 4? If so, how?
Have you tried display_hdmi_rotate?
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* Re: [9fans] Screen rotation on the Raspberry Pi 4?
2020-10-09 5:04 ` [9fans] " Bakul Shah
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2020-10-09 19:19 ` Bakul Shah
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From: a @ 2020-10-09 17:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Yes; no difference.
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* Re: [9fans] Screen rotation on the Raspberry Pi 4?
2020-10-09 17:36 ` a
@ 2020-10-09 19:19 ` Bakul Shah
2020-10-10 4:27 ` a
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From: Bakul Shah @ 2020-10-09 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Oct 9, 2020, at 10:36 AM, a@9srv.net wrote:
>
> Yes; no difference.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/blob/master/configuration/display_rotation.md
uses the word "default" for graphics drivers so I was hoping it meant
there was a choice! One more thing to try (just in case there is
indeed a real choice) is to put the command under a conditional filter:
[HDMI:0]
hdmi_group=2 // <== just an example
display_hdmi_rotate=..
Though I very much doubt this will work. Your best bet is to ask on their forum.
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* Re: [9fans] Screen rotation on the Raspberry Pi 4?
2020-10-09 19:19 ` Bakul Shah
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2020-10-10 6:56 ` Digby R.S. Tarvin
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From: a @ 2020-10-10 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thanks, but I don't think the issues is that a different way of
getting that directive working is the issue; that family of
directives seems to be no longer supported. There are a bunch
of posts for various linux systems about this, as well; they
now rely on xrandr to do the job. I'm more asking if anyone
has done anything with the fancy new graphics system the 4
includes, or done anything like generalizing the rotation bits
that were included in the bitsy port (which on a first pass of
reading, doesn't look too hard, but we know how that goes).
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* Re: [9fans] Screen rotation on the Raspberry Pi 4?
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@ 2020-10-10 6:56 ` Digby R.S. Tarvin
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From: Digby R.S. Tarvin @ 2020-10-10 6:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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I bought one of these to test as a portable hdmi display:
https://www.waveshare.com/7inch-fhd-monitor.htm
What I didn't realize till I read the fine print was that it only supports
portrait mode (and rather non-standard video settings) - presumably the
display is made with mobile phones in mind.
The relevance to this discussion is that the manufacturer seems to have had
an incentive to look into the question of screen rotation in the different
raspberry pi models, so their installation instructions at
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_FHD_Monitor provide some insight on
how it is expected to be done.
For Pi4 that seems to be by using the screen layout editor in the
preferences menu.
For Pi3 and earlier, it seems to be done with the line in config.txt.
I had assumed that for the Pi4 the GUI configuration was just a
convenient alternative to editing a text file that is read at boot time.
But it now seems that perhaps the menu option exists because the old boot
time functionality is no longer supported.
DigbyT
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 15:31, <a@9srv.net> wrote:
> Thanks, but I don't think the issues is that a different way of
> getting that directive working is the issue; that family of
> directives seems to be no longer supported. There are a bunch
> of posts for various linux systems about this, as well; they
> now rely on xrandr to do the job. I'm more asking if anyone
> has done anything with the fancy new graphics system the 4
> includes, or done anything like generalizing the rotation bits
> that were included in the bitsy port (which on a first pass of
> reading, doesn't look too hard, but we know how that goes).
>
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