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05/11/2015 at 04:39 #97240AnonymousInactive
I have a Pi 2 and an Adafruit 2.8″ resistive touchscreen.
I’ve followed this guide on Adafruit:
https://learn.adafruit.com/running-opengl-based-games-and-emulators-on-adafruit-pitft-displays/overview
I am reasonably new to this but I feel I have the very basics down.Using a clean install of RetroPie 2.6 and then following the guide, I just can’t get it to show anything on the PiTFT other than a white screen.
I’m using the Framebuffer Copy code as instructed in the guide and still nothing displays on my touchscreen. I don’t receive any errors.
I know the screen and the Pi work and that I don’t have a hardware problem.Has anyone had this problem and managed to resolve it? Does anyone have any advice or better: a working image?
I’m trying not to get too frustrated with it
05/11/2015 at 14:06 #97253ghostwhiperParticipanti’ve got the exact same problem with the pitft 2.8 capacitive.
did everything correct according to the guide on the adafruit site but the screen stays white,
hdmi says screen size not suported as it is 320×240.tried to doe the source instalation of retropie but even that didnt work.
/etc/init.d/asplashscreen
#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: asplashscreen # Required-Start: # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: S # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: Show custom splashscreen # Description: Show custom splashscreen ### END INIT INFO do_start () { /usr/local/bin/fbcp & line=$(head -n 1 /etc/splashscreen.list) isMovie=$(echo $line | grep -o "*.mpg") if [ -z "$isMovie" ]; then /usr/bin/fbi -T 2 -once -t 20 -noverbose -a -l /etc/splashscreen.list & else mplayer $line & fi exit 0 } case "$1" in start|"") do_start ;; restart|reload|force-reload) echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2 exit 3 ;; stop) # No-op ;; status) exit 0 ;; *) echo "Usage: asplashscreen [start|stop]" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac :
/boot.config.txt
# uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in # DMT (computer monitor) modes #hdmi_drive=2 # uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or # no display #config_hdmi_boost=4 # uncomment for composite PAL #sdtv_mode=2 # for more options see http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt gpu_mem_256=128 gpu_mem_512=256 gpu_mem_1024=384 overscan_scale=1 dtparam=spi=on # --- added by adafruit-pitft-helper Sun May 10 21:46:15 UTC 2015 --- [pi1] device_tree=bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb [pi2] device_tree=bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb [all] dtparam=spi=on dtparam=i2c1=on # uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode #hdmi_safe=1 # uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible # and your display can output without overscan disable_overscan=1 # uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console # goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border #overscan_left=16 #overscan_right=16 #overscan_top=16 #overscan_bottom=16 # uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus # overscan. #framebuffer_width=1280 #framebuffer_height=720 # uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output hdmi_force_hotplug=1 # uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA) hdmi_cvt=320 240 60 1 0 0 0 hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=87 # uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in # DMT (computer monitor) modes #hdmi_drive=2 # uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or # no display #config_hdmi_boost=4 # uncomment for composite PAL #sdtv_mode=2 # for more options see http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt gpu_mem_256=128 gpu_mem_512=256 gpu_mem_1024=384 overscan_scale=1 dtparam=spi=on # --- added by adafruit-pitft-helper Sun May 10 21:46:15 UTC 2015 --- [pi1] device_tree=bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb [pi2] device_tree=bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb [all] dtparam=spi=on dtparam=i2c1=on dtparam=i2c_arm=on dtoverlay=pitft28c,rotate=90,speed=64000000,fps=60 # --- end adafruit-pitft-helper Sun May 10 21:46:15 UTC 2015 ---
pi@retropie ~ $ tail /var/log/messages May 11 08:15:53 retropie kernel: [ 35.406377] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized May 11 08:15:53 retropie kernel: [ 35.443387] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized May 11 08:15:53 retropie kernel: [ 35.443468] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized May 11 08:15:53 retropie kernel: [ 35.443528] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 May 11 08:15:54 retropie fbcp[2461]: Primary display is 320 x 240
05/11/2015 at 17:06 #97255trixsterParticipantAre you running RetroPie 3.0 or later? I cannot help you with RetroPie 2.6.
I got this to work on a Rpi2 with 3.5″ resistive PiTFT.
I did not edit /etc/init.d/asplashscreen as it does not exist on my install. Instead I edited /etc/rc.local:
————————————–#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will “exit 0” on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ “$_IP” ]; then
printf “My IP address is %s\n” “$_IP”
fi/usr/local/bin/fbcp &
exit 0
——————————-the end of my config.txt looks like this:
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# — added by adafruit-pitft-helper Wed Apr 15 15:11:37 UTC 2015 —
[pi1]
device_tree=bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
[pi2]
device_tree=bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
[all]
dtparam=spi=on
dtparam=i2c1=on
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtoverlay=pitft35r,rotate=90,speed=42000000,fps=20
# — end adafruit-pitft-helper Wed Apr 15 15:11:37 UTC 2015 —hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_cvt=480 320 60 1 0 0 0
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87dtoverlay=pitft35r,rotate=90,speed=80000000,fps=60
———————————————-You would have to change the “pitft35r” to pitft28r for a resistive screen or pitft28c for a capacative one. You will also need to change the hdmi_cvt line to match your screen’s dimensions.
It’s probably best not to bump up the fps and speed too much – maybe use the # commented line for dtoverlay rather than the line i’ve added at the end. And DO NOT overclock your core beyond 250Mhz. Mine will not work with any form of core overclock.
My overclock settings are:
#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.
arm_freq=1100
over_voltage=4
sdram_freq=483
force_turbo=105/11/2015 at 17:29 #97257ghostwhiperParticipanti think fbcp doesnt run properly in my case.
if i use tail /var/log/messages only the primary display is detected and not the secondary display,ampersands what does
tail /var/log/messages
say with your pi?05/11/2015 at 18:46 #97259trixsterParticipantpi@RPi2 ~ $ tail /var/log/messages
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 5.094844] bcm2708_spi 3f204000.spi: SPI Contro ller running in dma mode
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 5.102943] bcm2708_i2c_init_pinmode(1,2)
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 5.107612] bcm2708_i2c_init_pinmode(1,3)
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 5.113434] bcm2708_i2c 3f804000.i2c: BSC1 Contr oller at 0x3f804000 (irq 79) (baudrate 100000)
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 6.078649] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p8): re-mounted. Opt s: (null)
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 6.258898] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p8): re-mounted. Opt s: (null)
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 6.687723] input: stmpe-ts as /devices/soc/3f20 4000.spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.1/stmpe-ts/input/input2
May 8 10:17:10 RPi2 kernel: [ 15.237104] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap. P riority:-1 extents:1 across:102396k SSFS
May 8 10:17:11 RPi2 fbcp[2182]: Primary display is 480 x 320
May 8 10:17:11 RPi2 fbcp[2182]: Second display is 480 x 320 16bps05/12/2015 at 14:29 #97301ghostwhiperParticipantstarted off again with retropie 2.6 didn’t work, started off with 3.0b2 still white screen.
Looks like fbcp isn’t running because the secondary display isn’t showing.
Tried again with both versions and did apt-get update and upgrade but still white screen.
Tried the resistive drivers instead of capacitive but again the screen stays white.
started off again with the pitft image and then installed retropie white screen again.Installing with hdmi or ssh makes no difference.
Hdmi is working and retropie boots perfectly at 320×240 Screen resolution.05/12/2015 at 15:27 #97304trixsterParticipantDo not do apt-get update or apt-get upgrade after the Adafruit kernel has been installed by the helper setup. It breaks the install.
05/12/2015 at 15:51 #97305ghostwhiperParticipantI Did update and upgrade after the first boot and controler setup and checked afterwards if retropie was working correctly before I installed the pitft helper.
maybe it’s a PAL/NTSC problem?
Not sure if hdmi uses PAL And if fbcp doesn’t work with PAL.06/10/2015 at 16:36 #99415paragonParticipantI have the same problem, was a solution ever found?
06/11/2015 at 16:49 #99512samart45Participantuse dtoverlay parameter to pitft28-resistive on new kernel version
and check file /boot/overlays/pitft28-resistive-overlay.dtbdtoverlay=pitft28-resistive,rotate=90,speed=80000000,fps=60
Try to test it.
Reference
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot/overlays -
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