Re: Framebuffer in Portrait mode?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:19:07PM -0500, Perry Vo wrote:
>
> I have Familiar Linux 0.4 installed on my iPaq with only bootstrap root
> image (i.e. no X or Python). By default, the display after boot up is in
> landscape mode (sideway, with the penguin displayed at the lower left corner
> of the screen). How can I reconfigure the display so that it is in portrait
> mode? Do I need to re-compile Familiar kernel or the framebuffer driver
> (and/or the touchscreen driver)? Is there a procedure (readme) file
> somewhere that I could follow to accomplish this?
>
> If you know the answer, I greatly appreciate your help...

You could change the kernel driver to draw a transformed framebuffer, but
that's not a good idea. You're far better off just having your app draw
things the way that you want them displayed, to the framebuffer which
is running in the native orientation of the hardware.

Alexander
Received on Wed Aug 29 12:25:59 2001