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@tynen tynen commented Aug 8, 2025

Of course. Here is a pull request description based on the guide you created. You can use this as a template for submitting your changes.


Fix: Enable Tablet Mode Auto-Rotation on Arch Linux

Problem

Automatic screen rotation does not work out of the box on many Arch Linux installations (and its derivatives) for two primary reasons:

  1. The iio-sensor-proxy package, which is required to read accelerometer data, is not installed by default.
  2. The version of iio-sensor-proxy available in some repositories (version 3.7) has a known [upstream bug](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/issues/411) that prevents it from correctly processing sensor data due to a faulty udev rule.

This leaves users without a functional tablet mode experience.

Solution

This PR adds a new guide that provides a clear, step-by-step solution for Arch Linux users to enable automatic screen rotation. The guide instructs users to:

  1. Install the necessary package: sudo pacman -S iio-sensor-proxy
  2. Apply a udev workaround: A sed command is used to comment out the problematic iio-buffer-accel line in the udev rules, forcing the system to use a working method to poll the sensor.
  3. Restart the relevant services to apply the changes immediately.

This approach resolves the issue completely and restores the expected auto-rotation functionality.

How to Test

  1. Follow the steps outlined in the new "Arch Linux Tablet Mode Setup" guide.
  2. Run monitor-sensor --accel after completing the steps.
  3. Confirm that the output includes the line === Has accelerometer (orientation: normal).
  4. Physically rotate the device to confirm the screen orientation changes accordingly.

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Did you try this?

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@tynen Echoing what Daniel asked, this was tested by you, correct? I will have one of my specialists test this as well asap. But I wanted to confirm what Daniel asked, this was tested and validated working? As iio-sensor-proxy 3.8 is released.

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I'm asking because it doesn't work on arch even without the config described here.
Arch also needs pinctrl_tigerlake https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/linux-docs/blob/main/framework12/debugging.md#check-that-the-kernel-recognized-the-tabletmode-gpio last I tried.

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