Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

jott made a great effort to make it so but, unfortunately, without wider infrastructure changes it's not really possible.

Basically your options are going to come down to Mer or Fremantle for "easy".

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

Thanks. That's a little worrisome as Merriam-Webster's first definition of "deprecate" is to pray against as an evil. I think that's just going too far.

OK, here's a newbie question: Looking at http://wiki.maemo.org/Rotation#N800, it appears to me that I have to manually type all of the following into X-term [and then press Enter]:

maemo-mini-curl -o kernel-diablo-flasher_2.6.21-200842maemo1rotationfast_all.deb http://outpo.st/rotate/kernel-diablo...onfast_all.deb
maemo-mini-curl -o xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20083801rotation_armel.deb http://outpo.st/rotate/xserver-xomap...tion_armel.deb
dpkg -i kernel-diablo-flasher_2.6.21-200842maemo1rotationfast_all.deb xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20083801rotation

I hope, and suspect, I'm misunderstanding. What's it trying to tell me?

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation ;)

Or copy'n'paste it over ssh.

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

Shouldn't there be something on the front page of the iTT wiki saying that it's been deprecated? (I just went to the page there for which I bear most the responsibility and inelegantly prefaced it with advice about a later, better solution.)

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

Déjà vu all over again.

Feel free to place one there, I'd kinda been leaving that up to Reggie myself, though.

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

This site provides pretty simple instructions that work for me.

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

I never knew about the wiki entry & the advanced brightness app. I like it! :)

Thanks again.

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

Hmm. I've tried implementing screen rotation, and I've used both

http://wiki.maemo.org/Rotation

and

http://sse2.net/rotate/

In both, all the commands seem to go through Xterm without any problems. (At one point I did get an installation error, but I did the same process again and it went through.) But when I go to Panels in the Control Panels, there is nothing new there, and my status bar looks the same, too. In other words, it seems that Nothing Changed, and I have no way to rotate the display.

I have no idea where anything I did with those two methods had an effect or was downloaded. Looking (in blue pill mode) at the Installed Apps, it doesn't seem like there is anything new there, either.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

Do you have Advanced Backlight installed?

Re: How to rotate screen on os2008
 

No, I don't. Is it that it would have been a problem, or is that a prerequisite?