Hi guys! So...yeah. I have a Chuwi Minibook X N150 laptop that I'm testing around. Seems so far, so good regarding hardware support, with even the camera working on apps like the zoom flatpak. There's one thing that keeps irking me though, and that's the GRUB boot menu. It's all rotated to the left (90º counter-clockwise). This is probably because they're using some sort of tablet 1080p LCD screen. Once logged in, the acceleration sensors (took a couple of boots to get them working) take over, and determine what is up and down. At the SDDM login screen, I can handle it with a quick xrandr --output mydisplay --rotate right. But...GRUB? Seems grub ignores me.

I have tried by now things such as: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=efifb fbcon=rotate:3", or GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i915.fastboot=1 fbcon=rotate:3" or even: GRUB_FB_ROTATION=270

But so far, nothing sticks, and the screen remains locked at a 90 degree angle. Any ideas of what could I do to sort it out?

I have KDE Neon installed, which is an Ubuntu 24.04 so far.

Thanks!

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Omg I have the exact same laptop and have had the exact same issue. Apparently there is a quirk downstream to fix it in the kernel. I had best experience with Fedora and just disabling Plymouth and use no gui for decrypt. I think Grub is ok for me. DM me if you like and want me to check anything specific when I get home so we can compare notes.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (6 children)

    So did you get it sorted in the your case?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    It's all working as expected but I couldn't get Plymouth rotated without graphical glitches with a gui so I just go no GFX on the SSD decrypt. I think Grub rotates fine.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    Could you show me what option did you use for grub to rotate? Thanks!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    I think it was editing /etc/default/grub and adding

    `GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT gfxrotation=3"`

    Then regenerating grub.

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