I remember seeing this issue on a mailing list a while back related to
Cinnamon settings causing it; the solution there was to go into the
settings and turn off the option to rotate the screen by default.
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On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 10:24 AM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>   The other day I installed a fresh copy of Debian 10 on my HP 840
> laptop.  Previously I had Debian 9 on it and had a kernel
> panic error which crashed the system.  I ran the fdsk command to try and
> restore it but as of today its still down.
>
> I put in a new hard drive and ran through the install.  Now when I try and
> log in the screen is upside down.  I am not sure what happened.  Maybe the
> OS thinks this is a computer pad device or something.  Does anyone know how
> I can fix this?  I can log in as
> either root or myself.
>
> please advise.
> thanks,
> Greg
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