no tablet rotation dialog

[Jose Hevia]

Binary package hint: wacom-tools

There is no easy tablet rotation dialog for intrepid ibex. There is a need for this on tablet PCs as well as on normal monitors with a usb tablet on portrait mode.

Until recentcly I used the command on a script at startup:

 xsetwacom set stylus Rotate CCW

used after:

xrandr -o left

This is a terrible hack, error prone, nonstandard configuration I can't recommend people to use.
With usb hotplug "stylus" for xsetwacom no longer exists. Linux should be easier to use on tablets.

Agree with bug #133430

[Sven Herzberg (herzi)]

This is a really good point. Ideally, the driver should always take the setting used by the resize and rotate extension (XRandR).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi jose-francisco-hevia,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[Jose Hevia (jose-francisco-hevia)]

Hi Bryce, nice to see you again.

Today I have my tablet working, and rotated, see the last comment(It works!!)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/282203

As you can see, from:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/280798

I wanted to rotate the screen using gnome-display-properties,it only letting me two options, but then I changed the xorg.conf to add the rotate option:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Configured Video Device"
  Driver "nvidia"
  Option "NoLogo" "True"
  Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection

So now the screen works too, X starts rotated, but rotate option is not compatible with XRAND:

From Xorg.0.log:
(II) NVIDIA(0):The RandR extension is not compatible with the Rotate option
(II) NVIDIA(0): Disabling RandR.

The problem is that it works very well, but is not suitable for average Joe. This means Joe not being capable of using the screen and tablet rotated easily(graphic artists). The aspect ratio of the first graphic computers were the same as an A4 document, but thanks to Steve Wozniak use of a inexpensive mass produced TV as monitor we have aspect ratios of a TV, good for movies, bad bad for documents.

My xorg.conf(I commented the xrand line, because it will make x to not start):
Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Default Screen"
  Monitor "Configured Monitor"
  Device "Configured Video Device"
######### Option "RandRRotation"
  DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load "glx"
  Disable "dri2"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Configured Video Device"
  Driver "nvidia"
  Option "NoLogo" "True"
  Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection

[Jose Hevia (jose-francisco-hevia)]

Xorg.0.log

[Bulat (bulatkjug)]

Wacom drivers and screen output rotation should work in pair in both cases:
rotate screen output and digitizer input when user set screen rotation in screen resolution settings;
auto-rotate screen output and digitizer input when convertable laptop is converted into tablet mode.
This bug-report concerns the first case.