Magick Rotation does not support slates
Bug #1056894 reported by
Sean DS
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Magick Rotation |
In Progress
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Undecided
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Sean DS |
Bug Description
I have an ACER W501 which is running Ubunto 12.04, it has a device called /dev/input/js0 which is the accelerometer device. I'd like my tablet to do autorotation based on feedback from the accelerometer. I understand magick rotation doesn't currently support this but I also feel it's a critical feature for a slate and this project is the most relevant one that could implement it.
At the moment I have buttons for rotation on the desktop, it would be nice if an acpi event triggered by the accelerometer could call those scripts and do the rotation, unfortunately I don't know where to start in doing it myself, although I'll spend a few hours today looking into it.
Thanks,
Sean.
Changed in magick-rotation: | |
assignee: | nobody → Sean DS (se4n-1) |
status: | New → In Progress |
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Hi Sean,
We've discussed adding accelerometer support. However we did and do not have access to a x86 slate.
I'd be interested in any code you come up with or information that would help with developing code. Accelerometer name, location of any file(s) providing rotation state signal, nature of signal(s), etc.
There are 2 or 3 Python applets for accelerometers around. I don't think any of them have seen any development in quite a while. I have the bookmarks somewhere if you are interested in code examples. Provided I can find them.