Display auto rotates when connecting a PS4 gamepad via USB

[Owais Lone]

Whenever I connected one of my PS4 controllers to my XPS 13 laptop. The laptop screen auto rotates to 90% clockwise and then 90% clockwise again. The laptop ends up with upside down screen. When this happens, the display settings does not show the orientation option either so only way for me to fix it is to restart the laptop.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Confirmed on a ThinkPad too. The bug didn't occur on my desktop though.

WORKAROUND:
1. Put the PS4 controller upside down (buttons down).
2. Open the panel menu and click the second circle button (rotation lock).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Looks fixed in trunk. We might want to cherrypick this fix if required: https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/commit/401d59e54b3123860180d4401e09df8a1e1bc6c3

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is fixed in the version in bionic