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 9 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 9 years ago in reply to gadget.iom +1

Yup, knew here was one, Paul is spot on

0 Robert Peter Oakes over 9 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 9 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 9 years ago in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

Hi Peter.

Another simultaneous posting. :)
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0 Robert Peter Oakes over 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

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