does nothing on dell inspiron 13 7347

[Alexey]

I tried Magick Rotation 1.6.2 without dell extension and with it. Nothing. Tried unstable but only indicator and touch on-off works. Ubuntu 14.04, Linux kernel 3.18.1-031801-generic x86_64. Dell Inspiron 13 7347.

[patrick (patrick-vanderheyden)]

Hi Alexey,

I faced some difficulties installing Magick-rotation.
Finally, i succeeded following this (see comment #1 in the following https://answers.launchpad.net/magick-rotation/+question/255635). Maybe this could help you ?

Patrick

After some research and test, Magick rotation working fine under ubuntu 14.04 with my Fujitsu-siemens Tablet T4215 :

After a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04, I've downloaded MagickRotation ve 1.7 from launchpad and uncompressed the tarball.
Then, installation of python-appindicator from the software center.
Following with a manual install as described in the installer.txt file :

sudo apt-get install gcc libx11-dev libxrandr-dev

cd /home/UserName/FolderOfMagickRotation

gcc check.c -o checkmagick32 -lX11 -lXrandr

sudo mv /home/UserName/FolderOfMagickRotation/checkmagick32 /usr/bin/checkmagick32

sudo cp /home/UserName/FolderOfMagickRotation/62-magick.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/62-magick.rules

sudo groupadd magick

sudo gpasswd -a pv magick

Then Restarted my computer.
The application doesn't start automatically.
In a terminal, when i start the application with /home/UserName/FolderOfMagickRotation/magick-rotation,
it seems to lack a file named « magick-rotation.xml ». But the process continue, and an icon appear in the upper bar : the application is launched and Magick rotation is running !
After a right click on the icon, i choose Setup and make some changes in the advanced menu.
Then Save the settings by clicking the appropriate Tab. This result in the creation of the missing « magick-rotation.xml ».
Exiting the terminal, restart my computer and everything is ok ! Works fine.

Except the special buttons on the screen, but i don't need them. There are posts about this in the forums, so when i'll have time ...

[Alexey (alzelenskiy)]

Patrick, thank you for reply. I followed the steps you've recomended. The magick-rotation.xml appeared in the home folder (I assume it could be there before, but I hadn't check with Ctrl + H like now). However, unfortunately no magick, no rotation. While the terminal was running I clicked the "Rotate" option and these lines appeared:

Magick is using an App Indicator.
class monitor monitor_count: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/magick-rotation/magick-rotation", line 191, in force_rotate
    device.rotate(None)
  File "/usr/share/magick-rotation/xrotate.py", line 757, in rotate
    direction = display.get_next_rotation(display.direction)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_next_rotation'

App indicator can do touch on-off, setup, enable-disable and quit. All the same as before.

[Thierry Mallard (thierrymallard)]

Greetings
I got the same error on my recently bought Dell Inspiron 7348
The error code seems to indicate that Magick Rotation didn't find a "tablet".
On my case, I had to hack 2 things :
1/ remove an unwanted "primary" word that appears on the xrandr command
2/ add a "eDP1" entry on the list of tablet indentifiers

As I'm not familiar with the bzr command yet, I attach a patch file for xrotate.py

In my case, this allows Rotate to work using the Rotate menu.
Auto-rotate doesn't work yet for me, I'll have a look at that later.

Best regards

-- Thierry Mallard

[davi menegotto (menegotto-davi)]

I'm runing a debian in Dell Inspiron 13 7348 i have to add a "eDP1" entry on the list of tablet indentifiers on xrotate.py to work. But just like thierry auto-rotate doesn't work.

thanks

[Andy Smith (squidmata)]

For a Dell Inspiron 13 - 5378 running Ubuntu 16.04 I've added "eDP-1" but likewise I have no auto-rotate. Is there anywhere else to look for further information on getting this to work?