Announce: "rotate" program.

[Aapo Rantalainen]

Hi, nice program.
Why do you not use xrandr -o inverted? It is there but never called.
(Is it merged with ORIENTATION_NORMAL, about row 136?)

I got lots of: " Didn't process a full packet. ",  Why?
And "EXPECTED: 2 0: 0 0",  what this means?

-Aapo Rantalainen


2008/8/20 Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a quick and simple C program that reads a packet from the
> accelerometer once per second, and rotates the screen to a new
> orientation if the orientation has changed.
>
> I don't mean this to conflict with Paul's excellent work on Gestures;
> my reason for writing it is so that it can be used as an always-on
> daemon in the OM distributions.  (Full gesture interpretation is more
> CPU heavy and requires reading data more often than once per second,
> so perhaps that will be done on-demand instead of always-on.)
>
> The code is:
>   http://github.com/cjb/freerunner-rotate/tree/master/rotate.c?raw=true
>
> There's an ARM binary here (chmod a+x rotate && ./rotate):
>   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rotate
>
> And you're welcome to make patches against the GIT repo here:
>   git://github.com/cjb/freerunner-rotate.git
>
> Would anyone else be interested in being the maintainer of this package?
> It would involve packaging it up in bitbake/OE and trying to persuade
> the various OM distros to include it by default.  (Perhaps with an
> on/off control panel entry in distros that make that easy to do?)
>
> Comments appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> - Chris.