Re: Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-05-23 Thread Loving, Kent
Way back in February, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Of course the framebuffer has lots of neat options so you could try adding a kernel option when booting the installer with: fbcon=rotate:1 (for rotate clockwise) or fbcon=rotate:3 (for rotate counterclockwise) Might work. But probably only

Re: Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-05-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:51:05PM -0700, Loving, Kent wrote: Well, I havn't given up. As you said, using fbcon rotated the screen just great until installer menu is painted. I dug and found that the script /lib/debian_installer.d/S70menu is wrapping the menu with the program bterm. I

Running on rotated screen

2012-02-23 Thread Loving, Kent
I want to build a debian installer CD that will be used on a device with a screen that is rotated. I've found that I can boot a debian LiveCD and (while craning my neck) open a shell and run xrandr -o left. After that the display is 'correct' and I can run /usr/sbin/debian-installer-launcher

Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-02-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:45:55AM -0800, Loving, Kent wrote: I want to build a debian installer CD that will be used on a device with a screen that is rotated. I've found that I can boot a debian LiveCD and (while craning my neck) open a shell and run xrandr -o left. After that the display

Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lennart Sorensen, le Thu 23 Feb 2012 15:29:36 -0500, a écrit : On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:45:55AM -0800, Loving, Kent wrote: I want to build a debian installer CD that will be used on a device with a screen that is rotated. I've found that I can boot a debian LiveCD and (while craning my

Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-02-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:22:37PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: The installer does not use the framebuffer any more. It uses X. But there's no udeb for xrandr yet. Wow, really? When did that change happen? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-02-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lennart Sorensen, le Thu 23 Feb 2012 17:35:39 -0500, a écrit : On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:22:37PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: The installer does not use the framebuffer any more. It uses X. But there's no udeb for xrandr yet. Wow, really? When did that change happen? Before squeeze. I

Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-02-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (23/02/2012): On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:22:37PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: The installer does not use the framebuffer any more. It uses X. But there's no udeb for xrandr yet. Wow, really? When did that change happen? Shameless plug:

Re: Running on rotated screen

2012-02-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:37:39PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Before squeeze. I guess you were away, there was quite some trafic on debian-boot about it. Wow, too much email to read it all I guess. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a