You have been subscribed to a public bug: when the monitor is rotated to a portrait orientation using gnome- display-properties (changing the rotation dropdown), and then i physically rotate my laptop, any connected usb mice then move correctly across the portrait screen- there are no issues with rotation for external mice. however, ubuntu (maverick at least) does not account for the fact that if you physically rotate your monitor, then you're obviously going to need to physically rotate a laptop's touchpad as well and thus the internal touchpad does not properly work when the laptop's monitor is in a portrait mode- up on the rotated touchpad = left, etc
not sure of what package the bug is in - probably x.org ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.207 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Jun 21 08:52:53 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick -- touchpad rotation when monitor rotated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/800064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp