Touchscreen upside-down!

I just installed the Raspberry 7" Touchscreen, uploaded and updated my Raspian OS and then when I rebooted, the image was upside-down!

Any suggestions on how to fix this???

Many thanks in advance.

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Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago +2

Based on the above responses, I think the best thing for now untill the OP learns a little more is to simply turn the screen upside down to correct the issue, anything else is more risky and can lead to…
Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom +1

Yup, knew here was one, Paul is spot on

0 Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago

I just turned the screen the other way for mine

There is a setting in the config to allow screen rotation, I cant remember exactly what it is but there is one
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago

An update has been pushed to Raspbian to flip the screen ( rotate it by 180 degrees ) for a better desktop viewing angle. This makes it upside-down, so you'll need to change a setting to flip it back.

To do this, open /boot/config.txt in your favourite editor and add the line:

lcd_rotate=2
This will rotate both the LCD and the touch coordinates back to the right rotation for our display stand.

Don't use the documented display_rotate, it performs a performance expensive rotation of the screen and does not rotate the touch input.

...curtousy of Google.
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

Hi Peter.

Another simultaneous posting. :)
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0 Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

Yup, knew here was one, Paul is spot on
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0 Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

So there saying the viewing angle is different from each oposit side ??
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

Yup.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=121263
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

Thank you Paul for this.

This will betray my ignorance and novice level but what is an "editor" and how can I access it?

Many thanks!
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

A text editor.
Nano for Linux command line, notepad in Windows etc.
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

Thanks Paul. But I'm sorry I don't understand how to access Nano.

Just so you know I am running a Pi Model B which had a pre-loaded microSD with Raspbian. That is the only OS that I have on the Raspberry Pi.

How can I access Nano? Do I need to load that first?

Appreciate your continued advice.
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

There should be an application such as leafpad on your raspbian os.
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