Probably the major complaint around here,. I’m new so shoot me. 
I’m not feeling that my skills are likely to extend to building kernels, at least not in the next 10 years, but since I bought this little laptop, I’ve had to unlock the video rotation, unlock a frozen cursor, figure out how to get the keyboard backlight on, and reinstall two recalcitrant distros that did not want to play well with each other, only to discover that the reason was because somehow the BIOS had decided to disable NMVE. And I’ve put more hours into troubleshooting this baby in one week than I have on my old Latitude that I’ve had for 7 years. But I still can’t get the screen to enter landscape mode until I get past the sddm login. Anyway, if there’s a fix I can adapt, I’m eager to try. I am, being a a stubborn Irishman, running Mageia and Manjaro on it. Other than the boot flaw, I rather like this machine.
I use Ubuntu but I fixed the screen rotation with:
(in /etc/default/grub)
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash fbcon=rotate:1”
There are projects on github to handle tablet mode better, but I’ve had mixed results with them.
Hello!
Thank you for sharing that info. I appreciate your generosity. I have tried that and a number of other variations to no effect - at least not in Mageia and Manjaro. I even followed up and recompiled the kernel to include the pre-load commands that were suggested. That was an interesting experiment. Having finally reinstalled everything on my drive, I am back to looking for less aggressive methods.
Best regards,
Eoghan
The kernel setting fbcon=rotate:1 is correct and it works on my Minibook X after grub selection completes. After updating the setting in /etc/default/grub did you re-build the grub.cfg file via sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg? Do note that /boot/grub/grub.cfg is the typical location, but your distros may have placed it elsewhere. You can sus out the location with find /boot -type f -name "grub.cfg" Unfortunately, with grub2, a multi-step process is required to effect change.