X61 Tablet screen rotation

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X61 Tablet screen rotation

#1 Post by Intenseman » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:30 pm

Received an X61 tablet today. Turned it on for the first time and the screen is portrait in standard laptop mode. It won't turn landscape. In fact, it doesn't respond to being rotated regardless; even in tablet.

Is this a software or hardware issue? Is there a fix?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Re: X61 Tablet screen rotation

#2 Post by Rameneater90 » Sun Oct 02, 2011 5:45 pm

Hey, there is no accelerometer on the X61, there are physical buttons to rotate the screen near the LCD.
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Re: X61 Tablet screen rotation

#3 Post by loyukfai » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:36 am

AFAIK, there are accelerometers in most recent ThinkPads, including the X61 (T or non-T), otherwise the APS system wouldn't work.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System

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