Changing rotation for a touch screen device?

NewAgeRipper

I installed Batocera to a 10 inch Asus Transformers Mini Tab. However the default view is portrait.
So, since Batocera does not detect Gyros I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can rotate the screen Horizontally?
I just need to know where the file is I need and what is called in the Batocera software when I ssh into it. And what the exact correct change needs to be. This would be very helpful. Thanks.

paybac

Never done it myself. But this batocera wiki explains it. https://wiki.batocera.org/doku.php?id=display_issues.

NewAgeRipper

The wiki page is a joke. It doesn't explain near as much as it should. I've been over and over it before which is why I finally made a post here. That article was created in a rush.
I can never get the xrandr stuff up or to work. I need someone to just explain where the file is and what steps exactly so I can get this fixed and over with for good. If I press F1 on the Batocera device I can get to terminal only it's called something else. I type in what the wiki shows for rotations and it comes back command not found or some other crap. I mean really. If Microsoft, Google, and others can detect gyros in a device, wouldn't you think for gaming that would be important also?

paybac

Heres a step by step for you. I have rotated Emulation Station on my machine without issue following these steps.

1.SSH into your machine (I'm assuming you now how to do this, let me know if you want more info)

Copy\Paste or Type each of the following commands and press enter

cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
This makes a copy of like the master file and creates an editable user file
nano ~/.xinitrc
The wiki uses "Vi" to edit file, I prefer "Nano" so I have changed it for my ease of writing this.
The .xinitrc should now be displayed in Nano, Scroll down using the down arrow until you get to the following section:

# rotate the screen
# xrandr -o left
# xrandr -o right
# xrandr -o inverted

Delete the "#" in front of which way you want it to rotate.
Press "Ctrl X" , press "y" to agree and "enter" to proceed.

Should be now back at the commandline, type "reboot" to restart your machine.

The purple Bactocera splash screen does not seem to rotate. But the next loading screen and emulation station will be rotated.

NewAgeRipper

Holy cow. Figured it out. Thank you so much. I'm gonna update my notes so I can just use those next time.
I really do appreciate the help. Not sure why yours clicked with me finally over the other original wiki post but you did include a little more info than it did. I'm ex-tactic. Whoever does the solved tags for this can mark it. I'm happy. I hope they eventually add an actual feature in Batocera to rotate at will depending on the screen preference. For example portrait is great for a lot of the older arcade games. But then for others that later started using wider scales the landscape option would be great to just click select, go to change Batocera Orientation, Landscape, Batocera then soft reboots and is in landscape.

NewAgeRipper

People, don't forget, root is the login name so you need that in if using PuTTY on Windows.

"Login as "root" without quotes.
Then the password which is "linux" without quotes.