This is a fresh Kali 2016.2 installation which I have tried twice with the same results. After applying the latest updates to the build, the screen will randomly rotate 90 degrees every few minutes. This is regardless of whether or not i am using the laptop.

HP Pavilion AMD A10-8700P Radeon R6, Gallium 0.4 on AMD Carrizo (DRM 3.1.0, LLVM 3.8.0

  • I can correct it using "XRANDR -o normal" but it is not persistent while operating the device.
  • AMD's driver site doesn't show an applicable driver for the R6 video
  • lspci shows "VGA Compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo (rev c5)
  • Under Display there is not any option to control rotation. I see this on a Kali install on another PC.
  • The PC doesn't have any BIOS setting for screen rotation or any physical switch.
  • The System log generates this error when it rotates.


Dec 27 15:15:25 BearEye /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1016]: (II) AMDGPU(0): Modeline "1600x900"x0.0 107.80 1600 1648 1680 1940 900 903 908 926 +hsync -vsync (55.6 kHz eP)
Dec 27 15:15:25 BearEye /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1016]: (II) AMDGPU(0): Modeline "1600x900"x0.0 71.86 1600 1648 1680 1940 900 903 908 926 +hsync -vsync (37.0 kHz e)


Thanks in advance for any help,