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Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwsn (Post 208426)

When i rotate to portrait and and open the keyboard it switches back to landscape fine. When i close, it doesn't go back to portrait. I've tried the box checked and unchecked. And it seems to have stopped working alltogether after a reboot.

Something i'm missing?

I have this problem too. Reinstalling sliderotate won't fix this. Rotating via advanced-backlight applet works fine. Rotating using xrandr -command works fine also.

Any ideas?

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

I installed the sliderotate and it seems to work pretty well. However my first install failed because I didn't have my network connection on. You might want to add an instruction to keeping it enabled.

My power-button is also still working badly. I would like to use it like before so I can easily lock the tablet, but I need to doubleclick it to get the menu. Single click would be great, or even better if you could make it just lock the device and shut down the screen on single, menu on double.

Thanks for a great enhancement :)

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

I just upgraded the sliderotate to match the latest SSU. (seamless my ***)
The version numbering has also been changed to reflect the needed SSU version.
Therefore current version is 4.2008-36-5.28 where .28 is the sliderotate version prefixed with the current SSU.

I had a lot of trouble getting the latest SSU installed because I ran out of space.
My solution was :

Code:

mkdir /media/mmc2/archives

mv /var/cache/apt/archives/* /media/mmc2/arcives

rmdir /var/cache/apt/archives 

ln -s /media/mmc2/archives /var/cache/apt/archives

and redo the installation.

If you already have sliderotate installed, you may not be able to do the SSU.
remove it, do the SSU and reinstall sliderotate using Application manager.

To make things even worse, this seems to fail sometimes.
If this happens, it must be installed with apt.

Code:

sudo gainroot

apt-get update

apt-get install -f

apt-get install sliderotate

I will look into the installation problems as soon as possible, but this will have to do now.

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

Quote:

Originally Posted by emjayes (Post 229656)

[...snip...]
To make things even worse, this seems to fail sometimes.
If this happens, it must be installed with apt.

Code:

sudo gainroot

apt-get update

apt-get install -f

apt-get install sliderotate

I will look into the installation problems as soon as possible, but this will have to do now.

Here's my failed result of the third command:

Code:

+ rootsh apt-get install sliderotate

Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

The following extra packages will be installed:

  kernel-diablo-flasher osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked

  rotation-support-n810 xserver-xomap

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  osso-software-version-rx44

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked rotation-support-n810 sliderotate

The following packages will be upgraded:

  kernel-diablo-flasher xserver-xomap

2 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 72 not upgraded.

Need to get 6598B/2237kB of archives.

After unpacking 1090kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

  kernel-diablo-flasher xserver-xomap rotation-support-n810 sliderotate

Install these packages without verification [y/N]? Get:1 http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com ./ osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked 1:4.2008.36-5 [6598B]

Failed to fetch http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/updates/diablo-2/./osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked_4.2008.36-5_all.deb  Size mismatch

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Fetched 1B in 0s (1B/s)

I have not yet tried the '--fix-missing' switch. TX

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

try this:

Code:

wget http://mikie.dy.fi/maemo/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel/osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked_4.2008.36-5_all.deb

dpkg -i osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked_4.2008.36-5_all.deb

apt-get install sliderotate

You seem to be getting the wrong osso-software-version
That should fix it
I fought over that part for quite some while too, and forgot it apparently :D

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

Quote:

Originally Posted by emjayes (Post 229718)

try this:

Code:

wget http://mikie.dy.fi/maemo/dists/diablo/user/binary-armel/osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked_4.2008.36-5_all.deb

dpkg -i osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked_4.2008.36-5_all.deb

apt-get install sliderotate

You seem to be getting the wrong osso-software-version
That should fix it

Unfortunately not. The error I get when trying to install is:

Code:

osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked conflicts with osso-software-version-variant

I have osso-software-version-variant already installed but it doesn't list a version. Shouild I try un-installing it? TX

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

Refresh the repos, and try again.
I had a typo in package control file which may be what prevents sliderotate from installing correctly.
If necessary, uninstall sliderotate first, then do the SSU to 4.2008.36-5, then install sliderotate again.
Check that the version is 4.2008.36-5.28 not 4-2008.36-5.28 (the broken one)
If you see the one with the dash, update the repos again.
sliderotate-4.2008.36-5.28 should install quite cleanly.

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

Quote:

Originally Posted by emjayes (Post 230089)

Worked like a charm right from the Application Manager (FWIW I had previously un-installed sliderotate) THANKS!! :) :)

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

Is there a way to fix the ugly looking home wallpaper in portrait mode?

Re: Automatic screen rotate for N810

Yes. Don't use one.
That's how I fixed it :D
Just plain black color with echo theme is what I have