Public bug reported:

HP Elitebook Folio 9470m.  This system is not a tablet or convertible,
and does not have a touchscreen.

If the laptop is sitting flat during boot, the display orientation is
normal.

If the laptop is not sitting flat during boot, or if it is moved out of
flat, the display rotates and the orientation it rotates to is inverted
upside-down.

This happens at the login screen as well as after login.

This laptop should really never have the screen rotate in the first
place, as it's not a tablet or convertible, but in the event that
rotation is happening it shouldn't be upside-down.


I have locked the rotation in gnome shell and in the login screen using the 
rotation lock button in the respective system menus.  It would be nice if there 
was a system-wide setting & this didn't need to be done on a per-user basis.

This gsettings command will also lock the gnome-shell rotation:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchscreen
orientation-lock true

However the above key doesn't affect the login screen, which has its own
separate rotation button in its own version of the system menu.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic
$ apt-cache policy gdm3
gdm3:
  Installed: 3.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.28.0-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gdm3 3.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 28 09:17:35 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-27 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Beta amd64 (20180404)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic

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  Screen rotates upside-down when laptop is not flat

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