[REVERTED] [PATCH] Revert Nexus7 touch to portrait by default

Jani Monoses jani at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 29 10:19:29 UTC 2013


On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:10:37 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:24:29AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> Applied to ubuntu-nexus7.
> 
> And reverted.
> 
> With this applied the login screen is still displayed in landscape mode,
> but the input orientation is portrate.  You try typing your password

Right, this change fixes the input part in the kernel.
There is a change to fix the rotation daemon in userspace.
Oliver and I have been testing that and as soon as we have a kernel the 
userspace bits will land too. Either way there will be a short window of 
breakage. 

Jani
> that way.  Even using a keyboard to login has the input orientation at
> 90 degrees to the visual output at all times.  top-right is bottom-right
> as it were regardless of which orientation you select.
> 
> I suspect we need a staged change to at least the login and orientation
> handlers before we can do this.
> 
> -apw






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