{"id":186,"date":"2010-10-30T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2011-02-15T09:36:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T07:36:01","slug":"enable-the-gyro-sensor-for-auto-display-rotation-on-acer-1825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Enable the gyro-sensor for auto display rotation on Acer 1825"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post I will describe how you could enable the gyro-sensor for automatic display rotation under Ubuntu 10.10 (Should also work under all debian based os)<\/p>\n

This post and delivered scripts are based on the work of arobase40 from http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1486671&page=5<\/a><\/p>\n

and\u00a0Imarune from the french ubuntu forum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for your nice job!<\/p>\n

first step<\/p>\n

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#become root<\/span>
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\nsudo<\/span> su<\/span> -
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\n#add new startup modules<\/span>
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\necho<\/span> -e<\/span> "i2c-i801\\n<\/span>i2c-dev\\n<\/span>lis3lv02d_i2c"<\/span> >><\/span> \/<\/span>etc\/<\/span>modules<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Info:<\/p>\n

arobase40 describes in the mentioned forum post two more ways to access the gyro-sensor. I choose this way because, you do not need to compile the kernel or anything else, also the suspend modes works fine.<\/p>\n

[dm]3[\/dm]<\/p>\n

Download this file and extract it.<\/p>\n

The application\u00a0i2c-gsensor\u00a0is based on http:\/\/pof.eslack.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/i2c-gsensor-lis3lv02dl-accelerometer-on-htc-shift-g-sensor\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Change with the \u00a0terminal into the extracted directory and run make!<\/p>\n

You got the application i2c-gsensor. Copy the application and the script to \/usr\/bin\/ and<\/p>\n

set script and application execution rights with:<\/p>\n

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sudo<\/span> cp<\/span>\u00a0gyro-auto-rotate.run\u00a0i2c-gsensor \/<\/span>usr\/<\/span>bin\/<\/span>
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\nsudo<\/span> chmod<\/span> +x \/<\/span>usr\/<\/span>bin\/<\/span>i2c-gsensor
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\nsudo<\/span> chmod<\/span> +x \/<\/span>usr\/<\/span>bin\/<\/span>gyro-auto-rotate.run<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Now you could check if everything works:<\/p>\n

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i2c-gsensor 0<\/span> [<\/span>loop]<\/span> #loop is optional if you want output in endless loop \/\/0 specifies the i2c-bus, should be correct<\/span>
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\n#if this works fine, you should see some xyz coordinates corresponding to the current notebook position<\/span>
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\n#now check the auto rotation script:<\/span>
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\ngyro-auto-rotate.run<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

Turn around your notebook and the display should switch in the correct position (left and right correct for tablet mode).<\/p>\n

If everything works fine you could add the script to System->Start programs<\/p>\n

i2c-gsensor<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this post I will describe how you could enable the gyro-sensor for automatic display rotation under Ubuntu 10.10 (Should also work under all debian based os) This post and delivered scripts are based on the work of arobase40 from http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/ http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1486671&page=5 and\u00a0Imarune from the french ubuntu forum. Thanks for your nice job! first step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[56,59,40,57],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-it-2","tag-acer-1825","tag-gyro","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}