FS#74291 - [linux][config] 5.17.1.arch1-1-x86_64 breaks framebuffer rotation of console

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Britt Anderson (brittAnderson) - Thursday, 31 March 2022, 14:29 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Friday, 01 April 2022, 16:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Kernel
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 6
Private No

Details

Description: kernel parameter fbcon:rotate= no longer functions as of linux-5.17.1.arch1-1-x86_64.

Seems due to this commit:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/7f98cfac6f93f0c57b930d42da2f95e77076fbc4#diff-6503b30d816e211d1909eed3e1eff5f9105fdc48f5735921a59f4906f99415beL6549

Could framebuffer console rotation be re-enabled? It is very useful for a small number of tablets/laptops (such as those from GPD) where the screens are installed rotated 90 degrees to their canonical orientations.
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Friday, 01 April 2022, 16:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  enabled in trunk, pending next release
Comment by m040601 (m040601) - Thursday, 31 March 2022, 23:33 GMT
Just another vote for this change to be reverted, so that things go back to the way they used to be.

Not all of us use X. Some of us make very good use of the linux console and framebuffer. Viewing pictures, videos, framebuffer terminals like fbterm and fbpad.

This has been working flawlessly and wonderfully for many years. For example, as described in the Arch wiki, in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB

Editing, /etc/default/grub, and adding the parameter, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="fbcon=rotate:3"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.

This had enabled a user to use my monitor in portrait mode. Extremelly usefull.

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