[tlinux-users 00496] Re: Linux on a Portege 3505

[Mike Vidal]

Chris:

On Feb 26, 2010, at 22:35 , Chris Hermansen wrote:

> Mike;
>
> No idea if this will work for you but check out this article:
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_6.10_on_a_ThinkPad_X41_Tablet
>
> About midway down it talks about how changing screen orientation
> generates an ACPI event, and how you can make that trigger the xrandr
> command to change orientation.
>

Thank you for your time and the link.  I tried what was suggested in  
the wiki and the only ACPI trap that is sent is the battery status.   
Rotating the screen and laying flat generates nothing.

I was just looking to see if I can get rotation supported in the  
display attributes since it says no rotation.  If I can manually  
rotate the screen that would be a plus.  Having rotate automatically  
would be great but it is not a requirement for me at this time.

I wonder if the guru's at toshiba have any ideas, have not heard  
anything.

Mike