7in rpi touchscreen wont rotate

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I have the latest octoprint image on my sd card. I'm running a 7in offical touchscreen.

Everything works perfect except I cannot rotate the screen just flip it.

I have tried the sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Then using
LCD_display_rotate=1

And all the other variants with that line of comand. I am sure new to coding. Any help would be great.

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documentation, also here and here

You might also read this issue I posted on the Adafruit repository for their drivers. In it, I'm reminding them that not everybody loads the full Desktop version of Raspbian and that orientation of display/touch needs to work at the console level.

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Thanks soon as I get home I'll read through and see if this helps!

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I've tried multiple was to get the screen to rotate. Every time on sudo reboot. It locks up at this screen.

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I'm about rdy to start fresh with a new disk img.

Can you walk a noob step by step lol.

I can get octo print running, the cammra works, internet works, just cant tt the screen to rotate! Bahaha

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I have lots of TFT screens; I just don't have the official one from Raspberry. Was there any documentation in the box it came in?

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My son got into the boxes befor I did hes 11. If there was documentation....... Its long gone lol.

I have tried several ways to rotate the last way was using this method.

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During boot the screen rotated then loaded the touchUI. When octoprint pull up it was back in landscape mode.

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Ah, gotcha. Alright, so it sounds like when you installed TouchUI you also installed the Desktop (x11) system.

So you'll need to chase the method of changing the orientation in x11, not in the console.

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Thanks for helping. I have tried a couple things. The end results are either it boot in vertical and freazes. Boots to octoprint but always in landscape mode.

Is there a way to trick octo print to thank it is a mobile device and go into vertical mode like when I view it from my phone. Sorry if that's a dumb question. Still very new and have a basic understanding of all this.

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If you haven't already done so, I think it's now time to install the TouchUI plugin.