Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 17:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Johannes Lundberg <johalun@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rotating (efi) framebuffer Message-ID: <201905030007.x4307dJg090010@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <57526b0a-fbfb-e933-1c52-6f96550e6273@FreeBSD.org>
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> Hi > > I have a Lenovo Ideapad where the screen is rotated 90 degrees and I > can't rotate it to landscape mode until I'm in X. How many of you are in > the same situation and would like a fix? Seeing how development is going > with small (tiny) computers it will probably be more and more common > with ultra portables having a "phone screen" which most likely is in > portrait mode by default. This also applies to embedded and home brew / > prototype devices. > > It would certainly be nice if we could have a boot time parameter that > could rotate the framebuffer (just as a data point, I'm pretty sure > Linux can do this). How many would be interested in this? Is there > anyone working on this atm? Not sure I will have the time to develop > this all of my own but thought I'd check the interest at least. Perhaps > a GSoC project? Yes please. > Johannes -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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