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kalos

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Help with laptop
« on: May 11, 2018, 09:55 PM »
hello guys!

I have a serious problem with my Lenovo Yoga 13 (first model) and I would really be grateful if you can help me solve it so that I won't have to waste £500 for a new laptop.

Basically, it's a convertible with touchscreen, and now I that restarted it, the screen shows as an A4, ie the screen is rotated 90 degrees!

I am worried that it is damaged because it fell few days ago, but it didn't behave like that immediately after.

Any idea??
Can I just completely disable screen rotation or something?
Thanks!

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Re: Help with laptop
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2018, 10:20 PM »
its possible the orientation detection sensor got broken.. you might need to just turn it off and figure out how to manually set orientation.

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Re: Help with laptop
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2018, 12:20 AM »
Being an Intel graphics adapter there's usually hotkeys associated with screen rotation, traditionally it was Control + Alt + (cursor key)

ie.
Ctrl + Alt + Left = Rotate 90° counter-clockwise
Ctrl + Alt + Right = Rotate 90° clockwise
Ctrl + Alt + Down = Rotate 180°
Ctrl + Alt + Up = Normal orientation
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