Hi guys! So…yeah. I have a Chuwi Minibook X N150 laptop that I’m testing around. Seems so far, so good regarding hardware support, with even the camera working on apps like the zoom flatpak. There’s one thing that keeps irking me though, and that’s the GRUB boot menu. It’s all rotated to the left (90º counter-clockwise). This is probably because they’re using some sort of tablet 1080p LCD screen. Once logged in, the acceleration sensors (took a couple of boots to get them working) take over, and determine what is up and down. At the SDDM login screen, I can handle it with a quick xrandr --output mydisplay --rotate right. But…GRUB? Seems grub ignores me.
I have tried by now things such as:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=efifb fbcon=rotate:3", or
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i915.fastboot=1 fbcon=rotate:3"
or even:
GRUB_FB_ROTATION=270
But so far, nothing sticks, and the screen remains locked at a 90 degree angle. Any ideas of what could I do to sort it out?
I have KDE Neon installed, which is an Ubuntu 24.04 so far.
Thanks!
GRUB loads before any kernel driven hardware module, so this machine is just working on the native orientation of the CMOS and Display at that point.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tallscreen_Monitor
Seems to suggest that the fbcon argument should work, but which version of Grub you’re using matters. Make sure you update initd if using Grub2.
It seems update-grub does update initd in the process. But…yeah, it seems to continue to ignore my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line. I also tried the gentoo way of your wiki, running grub-mkconfig instead of just update-grub. But after updating and going for a reboot, it still didn’t do much.
Hey sorry to thread-jack I looked everywhere for this info but couldn’t find it:
Can you upgrade RAM and storage in this device?
I…don’t think so. I believe it is soldered, but I haven’t opened it yet. But they just released a new version (for a higher price though), this version finally comes with 16GB of RAM (not the odd 12GB), 512GB SSD and a N150.
Storage yes, ram no.
(Single side NVMe or it’s too tight)
Create an Xorg config and add the following lines to the file:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-monitor.conf
Section “Monitor” Identifier “DSI-1” Option “rotate” “right” EndSection
Update GRUB so the changes are applied: sudo update-grub or sudo update-grub2, whichever works on your machine. Then reboot. This fixed the problem for me on the minibook running kubuntu.
Thanks! This is the first time i see this option. I’m not sure how this might work, as grub starts way before invoking X11, the way I understand it. But the panel is indeed labeled DSI-1. That said, I created the file but seems not to work. Is the line
Option "rotate" "right"Just like that? It didn’t seem to do anything after running update-grub and rebooting.
Omg I have the exact same laptop and have had the exact same issue. Apparently there is a quirk downstream to fix it in the kernel. I had best experience with Fedora and just disabling Plymouth and use no gui for decrypt. I think Grub is ok for me. DM me if you like and want me to check anything specific when I get home so we can compare notes.
