# Rotate screen on x96 air **URL:** \ **Category:** Amlogic Devices\ **Created:** [April 8, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/rotate-screen-on-x96-air/1853 "2023-04-08T15:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boogey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@boogey](https://emuelec.discourse.group/u/boogey)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/rotate-screen-on-x96-air/1853/1 "2023-04-08T15:03:21Z")
hi i am trying to rotate screen to put in a vertical cocktail cab but i cant rotate the screen i can in retroarch but not emuelec the box is an x96 air with the s905x3 chip and its 4g ram and 32 rom any help would be awesome ---
**Author:** ![Langerz82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Langerz82](https://emuelec.discourse.group/u/Langerz82)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 6:18am UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/rotate-screen-on-x96-air/1853/2 "2023-04-12T06:18:43Z")
If you want it system wide, you have to recompile the distro and change a feature parameter, nobody has tested this yet. See: > [@Screen Rotation](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/screen-rotation/1662/4): > > retroarch has a similar rotate config. However I was researching if you could rotate the linux frame buffer without the emulators having to do it. But it seems it needs rotate support in the kernel to do it: linux kernel fbcon=rotate:\ This option changes the orientation angle of the console display. The value ‘n’ accepts the following: 0 - normal orientation (0 degree) 1 - clockwise orientation (90 degrees) 2 - upside down orientation (180 degrees) 3 - counterclockwise orientation (2… ---
**Author:** ![rpascale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@rpascale](https://emuelec.discourse.group/u/rpascale)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://emuelec.discourse.group/t/rotate-screen-on-x96-air/1853/3 "2023-12-30T14:08:24Z")
Did you ever get this to work?