[Bug 1726160] Re: On login, display rotates to wrong orientation [HP Pavilion]

[Matej Kovacic]

I have Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop and had the same problem. After reboot
(when there was login screen), screen was flickering and endless
changing rotation randomly. I managed to stop this by enabling external
screen (inserted miniHDMI-to-VGA cable into laptop).

However when I removed miniHDMI-to-VGA cable, flickering immediately
begins and laptop was not possible to use.

So I went to Settings - Devices - Screens, and found out I can change
default rotation of external screen, but cannot change default rotation
of laptop's screen!

Then I found "orientation lock" icon in system tray and screen stopped
rotating and flickering randomly. However, this was working only when I
has been logged in my account. Login screen was still rotating and
flickering randomly!

Fortunately, I was able to lock orientation in login screen also, and
now it works fine. Well, I must admit it did not just start to work when
I clicked "orientation lock" icon on login screen and as a loggined
user, I need to restart laptop SEVERAL TIMES.

However, I have a couple of questions.

First, why there is no option to disable screen rotation completely.

Second, why there is no option to set default screen rotation for
internal screen?

Third, does Ubuntu have a group of special UX people who are wondering
all day how to f**k their users??? I mean, this bug is a total blocker!
And a complete shame. When you are introducing new features - please do
it slow and with possibility to disable them.

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Title:
  On login, display rotates to wrong orientation [HP Pavilion]

Status in IIO Sensor Proxy:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd:
  New
Status in iio-sensor-proxy package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using a laptop, and on 17.04 the display always showed correctly,
  but after upgrading to 17.10,  when I log in the display rotates to
  the right (portrait), and I have to open a terminal and run 'xrandr -o
  1' to get it back to the correct (landscape) orientation. In previous
  versions 'xrandr -o 0' was landscape, and '1' was portrait the other
  way.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
  .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0'
  .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
  .proc.driver.nvidia.version:
   NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  340.104  Thu Sep 14 17:13:13 PDT 2017
   GCC version:  gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu3)
  .tmp.unity_support_test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CompositorRunning: None
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Oct 22 15:15:08 2017
  DistUpgraded: 2017-10-22 14:17:00,381 DEBUG icon theme changed, re-reading
  DistroCodename: artful
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   bbswitch, 0.8, 4.10.0-37-generic, x86_64: installed
   bbswitch, 0.8, 4.13.0-16-generic, x86_64: installed
   nvidia-340, 340.104, 4.10.0-37-generic, x86_64: installed
   nvidia-340, 340.104, 4.13.0-16-generic, x86_64: installed
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 230M] [10de:0a28] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company GT216M [GeForce GT 230M] [103c:363c]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-01-11 (284 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
  LightdmDisplayLog: (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.13.0-16-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-22 (0 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/05/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: F.1D
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: 363C
  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.board.version: 32.25
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.1D:bd10/05/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv7NotebookPC:pvr039D200002241210000020000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn363C:rvr32.25:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.family: 103C_5335KV
  dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
  dmi.product.version: 039D200002241210000020000
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+17.10.20170901-0ubuntu1
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.83-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 17.2.2-0ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 17.2.2-0ubuntu1
  version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.10.0-1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20170309-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2

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