[SOLVED] Screen Rotation on a CLI only system

Issue

I am building a Raspberry Pi ZeroW Raspi-based CLI-only system and I need to rotate my screen 90 degrees.

I am struggling to find a way of doing it or even if it is possible. Some suggestions are to set "display_hdmi_rotate=1" or "display_lcd_rotate=1" in config.txt. This does not seem to work in Raspian anymore and there was the suggestion that it is no longer supported.

Everything else I can find seems to relate to rotating the screen from the CLI/console for use in a desktop but since I am not using a desktop, that does not apply.

I have the option to dump Raspi and try another distro if other distros can rotate the CLI.

Can it be done, if so can anyone tell me how?

Thanks

Solution

After much digging I found the answer.

echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate

will rotate the screen 90 degrees. Adding it to /etc/rc.local rotates the screen during boot.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/237963/how-do-i-rotate-my-display-when-not-using-an-x-server. .

Answered By - AndyW

Answer Checked By - Marilyn (WPSolving Volunteer)