Re:Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthqu...
by i336_ on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:40AM
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And thinkpads.
I used it to add X11 autorotation to an X61 tablet. No spin animation, but it was a cool one-day hack nonetheless.
The fun part was that the orientation analyses was done from a shell script, and actually worked 100% of the time (unlike so many phones)! \o/
The insane part was that DRM/KMS on Linux is 1000% crazy and I had to patch the kernel to stop poking the backlight on every. rotation. event, grr. (I had to do it in the kernel - I basically killed DPMS - because X11 libdrm is utterly incomprehensible.)
I used it to add X11 autorotation to an X61 tablet. No spin animation, but it was a cool one-day hack nonetheless.
The fun part was that the orientation analyses was done from a shell script, and actually worked 100% of the time (unlike so many phones)! \o/
The insane part was that DRM/KMS on Linux is 1000% crazy and I had to patch the kernel to stop poking the backlight on every. rotation. event, grr. (I had to do it in the kernel - I basically killed DPMS - because X11 libdrm is utterly incomprehensible.)