Options for enabling Portrait mode/Rotation without using VirtualBox

[Chris Gay]

I have a large touch screen that I want to set up as a kiosk. I have a built version of the 7.1 RC2 of Android-x86. I also have an app that will auto-rotate to Portrait mode. Unfortunately, when I install the app onto my device running said build, it does not switch to Portrait mode. All of the resolutions for the screen are width x height, so I cannot change the resolution via GRUB menu easily (please inform me if I am missing something to enable this). Ultimately I want to enable Portrait mode, with a preference of not rebuilding the ROM (the computer I built it on is slow and often fails/hangs). Any and all help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Chris Gay

[Chih-Wei Huang]

See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-x86/efgnq9xA5aQ/9qaU4F7PAwAJ

I may need to add a kernel cmdline option to configure it.


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

[Chris Gay]

Thanks for the link Chih-Wei! Unfortunately I rebuilt a few times with the changes to the init.sh and I am not able to enable Portrait mode. Do I need to specify the proper matrix as well? Here are my modifications in init.sh, init_hal_sensors():

    has_sensors=true

    set_property ro.hardware.sensors $hal_sensors

    #[ "$hal_sensors" != "kdb" ] && has_sensors=true

    set_property config.override_forced_orient $has_sensors

Please note that I attempted to comment out the boolean check for "kbd" as that was false (i.e the value WAS "kdb") for my case to force the setting of the property. I verified via adb shell that the config.override_forced_orient property was set to true as well. Thanks for your assistance!