Rotate screen android-x86-7.1-rc2

[frephiful]

On an old Acer Aspire One ZG5 netbook I had installed android-x86-6.0-r3 and it worked fine. I use this netbook mainly as some sort of e-reader to read comics with teh program Comicrack. I was able to rotate the screen using the F9, F10, F11 and F12 buttons, this way it was easy to display a page fullscreen. This week I installed the newer android-x86-7.1-rc2 version, but in this version it isn't possible to rotate the screen, or am I doing somthing wrong? It would be nice when this option would be available again, maybe in in a patch or new build?

[Chih-Wei Huang]

You can choose "Rotate the contents of the screen"
from Settings -> Display.
(could also be adjusted via pull down menu)
Then open a terminal, issue the commands:

su
setprop config.override_forced_orient true
stop;start

If you want to keep it persistent, you should
modify function init_hal_sensors()
in /etc/init.sh, add your device id
or just change has_sensors=false
to has_sensors=true.


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Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org

[frephiful]

Thank you for your answer, I'm gonna try that if I find the time. Bye the way, is it poddible to open su terminal in Android? How do you do that?

Op donderdag 12 oktober 2017 09:51:14 UTC+2 schreef Chih-Wei Huang:

[Kossuth]

Just open regular terminal and type su and hit enter. Works at least on x86.

[frephiful]

Couldn't find the  "Rotate the contents of the screen" from Settings -> Display option or how to open a terminal. For the record, I'm not using Android x86 in virtualbox in Linux or Windows. I installed it als main and only operating system on this netbook.

[Chih-Wei Huang]

You need to search harder.
Otherwise nobody can help you.

If you still can't find the terminal app,
Alt-F1 is another solution to give you a console terminal.

[n00bile erasmus]

this rotate fix worked great with my hp pavilion x2 12-b020nr.   in init.sh under the aspire hal sensor entry i put in:

*HPPAVILION*)
  hal_sensors=true
  ;;


offtopic - alas if only there was such a simple way to enable audio