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How to unlock Secondary Landscape Orientation

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I have a tablet pc and the secondary landscape orientation is locked. I downloaded Intel’s version of the GMA x4500 driver and it unlocked the ability to rotate 180 degrees, however Tablet PC settings in control panel still shows the 180 degree orientation (secondary landscape) as locked, or not there. I can’t assign the screen rotate button on the screen bezel to rotate to secondary landscape without it being unlocked there.

I think I’ve found the registry key responsible for this, but I have no idea how to change it and Deleting it did not seem to do the trick.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Tablet PC\TiltData\DisplayOrientation180

In the DisplayOrientation180 subkey is a REG_SZ with the name (Default) and (value not set) in the data column.

Under it is a REG_NONE titled ISD V4 which contains hex values as follows:
[code]
0000 40 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 @…….
0008 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……..
0010 00 80 00 00 00 80 00 00 ……..
0018 00 00 00 00 02 00 02 00 ……..
0020 19 03 F5 04 66 03 47 05 ..?.f.G.
0028 B3 7C F5 04 00 7C 8F 06 ?|?..|..
0030 19 03 B8 7A 66 03 EB 79 ..?zf.ey
0038 B3 7C B8 7A 00 7C C2 79 ?|?z.|?y
0040
[/code]

I suspect this is a registry entry which locks out the 180 degree display orientation (secondary landscape) from showing up in the Tablet PC Settings in the Control Panel. Please help? I want to be able to rotate my screen to any orientation on my Fujitsu Lifebook T5010 Tablet PC!

How would I change this entry to be able to do so?

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Sounds to me this is done automatically. So try this out..

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…. Portrait Orientation:
Hold the system with the display positioned vertically with the latch on the
left.

……. 2nd Portrait Orientation:
Hold the system with the display positioned vertically with the latch on
the right.

…………. Landscape Orientation:
Hold the system with the display positioned horizontally with the latch
on the top.
Note: Holding the system horizontally with the latch at the bottom is not a functional orientation.
You might want to read your manual and get used to the way your computer works. 🙂

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Peconet, I hope you are joking

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I really hope you are joking.

I was actually able to fix it myself with a new graphics driver and several registry tweaks. Thanks anyway.

No joke…

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I got the info from the manual for your make of computer.
Your computer is the tablet type is it not?.
If it is not then sorry for the wrong info. 🙂

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.
If this information is useful, please mark as helpful. Thanks.

How did you fix this?

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Infiniteinsight, How were you able to solve this problem? I just purchased the 5010 and I used to take notes on powerpoint presentations with my previous tablet in the “secondary landscape” orientation (with the clip at the bottom). thanks for any help you can provide

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