Screen rotation for devices with native portrait screen (such as Lenovo Legion Go)

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Screen rotation for devices with native portrait screen (such as Lenovo Legion Go)

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Richmond Heimana

Created: 2024-01-25

Updated: 2024-11-10

Richmond Heimana - 2024-01-25

Hello,
The device use a portrait screen as told above, BIOS is also in portrait instead of landscape. Is there a way to make refind rotate itself so that it is shown in landscape mode on the device ? My current workaround is an edited theme with rotated icons but it's not the best looking.

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KPAH - 2024-11-10

Hi there.
There's a growing number of landscape devices on the market that use hardware portrait screens (i.e. from tablets) and then rotate them to landscape. Most popular are Steam Deck, Legion GO, GPD Win, Framework laptops and a few other.
Adding
resolution 2560 1600
to
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

rotates the rEFInd menu and GRUB.
However, launching Windows results in a distorted image, with no Windows logo and a few rotating circles.

Are there any plans to implement native support for portrait screens?

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