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How to force screen orientation on lomiri desktop

I recently got a pinetab2, and I booted it into ubuntu-touch, running lomiri. But the screen orientation is the wrong way (portrait). I am not interested in autorotate, so how would I force the screen orientation of a mir-based desktop to landscape? If you need more info to help me, just ask for it.

edit:
Yesterday while writing this I didn't have much time, so I forgot to mention the accual problem...
The problem I'm having is that the autorotation sensor always reports portait mode, even when in landscape. It does report a change. I know this because it switches to desktop mode when I rotate with the keyboard plugged in.
edit while writing previous edit:
Now it does not even go to desktop mode anymore... So I guess it is now stuck even more.

My solution was either disabling the rotation sensor's driver to make lomiri default to the set rotation in /etc/ubuntu-touch-session.d/flo.conf, or fixing the driver so it reports orientation correctly.

edit 2: I currently solved th