Is X11 Screen Rotation Possible?
(09-19-2021, 06:06 AM)jlucas Wrote: So apparently it is using the "modesetting" driver, I also didn't have fbdev installed...
After installing fbdev it loads it as well, everything seems to work the same.
I can't really notice any performance changes, since most of what I do is in the terminal.
Yes at the moment I can't notice any significant difference between modesetting and fbdev either.
For anyone following this, whatever that problem is that was stopping SDDM from rendering my login screen with these drivers, I avoided it by switching to GDM. It was a lot of work getting GDM to compile on Slarm64 and building all the dependencies (and actually when first installed it wouldn't authenticate me; I had to use SDDM's PAM settings to fix that). In hindsight it might have been better to just find a way to hack an onscreen keyboard into XDM, but at least I'm back up and running and with screen rotation too!
(09-20-2021, 06:09 AM)ryo Wrote: Do you have an explanation on how to use X11 on Phosh?
Because I thought the Purism team made it Wayland-only.
I never liked the whole Wayland lock-in, because why are we replacing something that has been fully functional for 24 years with something that is still far from functional 12 years after its development started?
Looks a lot like the more effort we put to make something better, the worse results we're getting in the end.
Not just with Linux, this is the case with pretty much everything in the current year.
I can't speak for jlucas but I personally didn't want to run Phosh, Wayland or systemd on my PinePhone, so I've got an XFCE desktop at the moment on it with Slarm64. I would guess it would be a lot of work to try to separate Phosh from Wayland. If you still prefer a mobile-style interface to a desktop but want X11 you might have more luck with Maemo Leste (which is apparently now based on Devuan and uses X11 I believe).
