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I’m trying to use the raspberry pi 3 in kisok mode on a 27" hdmi/touchscreen display on portrait mode

I’ve managed to rotate the display with the configuration BALENA_HOST_CONFIG_display_hdmi_rotate=1 (equivalant to putting display_hdmi_rotate=1 in /boot/config.txt)

but I struggle to rotate the touchscreen inputs.

  • should it be possible with configuration in /boot/config.txt ? I tried various lcd_rotate=... and display_rotate=... but it changes nothing

  • should I be able to do that with udev rules ? if so how do I figure how to write the rule (selector and transformation matrice) ? and, can I try to apply a rule from the command line without restarting the device ?

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Touchscreens use a separate coordinate system which is not synchronized with the underlying display. You should be using xinput to apply the correct transformation matrix, e.g. for an input device named Touchscreen and a 90-degree rotation that would be:

xinput set-prop 'Touchscreen' 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix' '0 -1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1'

Another option is to redo a calibration on a rotated screen (if the touchscreen comes with a calibration tool) and hope that the calibration process will take care of the orientation.

Although such a command can be run from an udev rule, it would be an odd place for it. I would try to make Xorg or the touchscreen driver take the transformation into account via a config file (for Xorg, that would be xorg.conf). If that doesn't work, the next best place would be the desktop environment startup script, e.g. the Balena's equivalent of /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart.

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