Comments on: How to Rotate a Raspberry Pi HDMI Touchscreen to Portrait Mode

By: m_bey

m_bey — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 18:29:54 +0000

In reply to Grégory. nice!

By: Grégory

Grégory — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:42:13 +0000

Hello M_BEY !
Thank you so much, It works perfectly, I’m finally able to rotate screen on my pi with touch working!

The best solution 🙂

By: m_bey

m_bey — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:51:12 +0000

In reply to Roger. Roger, that's an interesting problem. I've got the Pi4, so that might have different hardware interfaces. A lot of working with any Linux setup is making sure you've got the exact same setup as the myriad blog posts. Are you putting the lcd_rotate=2 into /boot/config.txt ? The /X11 settings are just to change the orientation of the touch-interface (which is different from the visual display).

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:09:36 +0000

But I AM using “official raspberry pi hardware.” In the past, a simple lcd_rotate=2 would rotate screen orientation 180 degrees and allow my official pi touchscreen to sit as designed so I could velcro it to my dash. No such luck this time.
As far as cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is concerned–there’s no /X11/anything under /usr/share/. I’ve been banging away with instructions from helpful people that either can’t be followed, or they have no effect when they can be followed.
My screen is the official Raspberry Pi 7″ touch screen, connected via ribbon cable to the pi 3B+ monitor port, and powered off the pi as well. I just upgraded my OpenAuto installation with a fresh install of OpenAuto Pro 12.0. OS is NAME=”Raspbian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=”10″
VERSION=”10 (buster)”
VERSION_CODENAME=buster
Any help would be appreciated.