Rotation support for OS2008
Rodrigo made a nice patch to support the RandR extension with Xomap so you can rotate the screen at runtime.
I made some fixes and compiled everything for OS2008 on the N8x0.
I also wrote a little status bar applet to make use of the rotation.
The rotation works quite nice with hildon. Some minor glitches are to be expected as some dialogs are made with fixed sizes.
But overall it is nice for browsing and reading emails and so on.
Important update:
As fanoush pointed out, xv was broken with my initial patch. The updated patch should fix this.
He also noted that due to the broken package structure in maemo, the osso-software-version package breaks
when changing package versions of packages dependend of it.
Hence I renamed the xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202-randr01_armel.deb package back to
xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202_armel.deb, I also removed the libxrandr2 package as you
can use the one in the maemo repositories.
To fix your osso-software-version package please install
xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202_armel.deb
and
libxrandr2_1.2.1-1_armel.deb
Finally, also reflash the updated kernel.
Instructions
As the rotation support is hardware based (the LCD controller supports rotation) you need to flash a modified kernel.
You can try to boot the kernel first, without flashing:
flasher --load --boot --kernel kernel-rx-34_2.6.21.0-osso71-randr2
If everything works as expected you can flash it with:
flasher -f -k kernel-rx-34_2.6.21.0-osso71-randr2
You still have to manually update Xomap, either via Red Pill Mode
or via the terminal as root:
dpkg -i xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202_armel.deb
To actaully rotate the screen, you might want to try this automatic install. It will install libxrandr and my rotate statusbar applet. You can also install the console based xrandr.
If you have any remarks or comments, write me or join #maemo on irc.freenode.net, my nick is jott (just /msg me).
Files
kernel-rx-34_2.6.21.0-osso71-randr2 (md5: c64d48d731b5bd2007f0d836cd25b977)
xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20074202_armel.deb
rotate-sb-plugin_0.1-1_armel.deb
xrandr_1.2.2-0_armel.deb
rotate-sb-plugin-0.1.tar.bz2 (Source of the rotation plugin)
Updated_blizzard_rotation_support_v2.diff (Kernel patch used)
Disclaimer
As this modifications make changes to core compontents, you should make a backup and you should know what you are doing.
I take no responsibility for things you break.
Good luck ;-)
Screenshots
Applet:
Rotated desktop:
Browser:
