Anybody using an Adafruit PiTFT display?

[Adrian Chadd]

Hm, looks like someone would need to write a VT driver for the thing.

I don't know about how to get X onto it though. Do we have any support
for X to render to VT console?


-a


On 8 May 2014 00:36, Alan Corey <alan01346 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adafruit doesn't support anything but Raspbian officially, but one guy
> there is a NetBSD user. I'm not really qualified but I bought the
> display and I'm starting to look into making it work under FreeBSD,
> but only because OpenBSD doesn't  support the Pi and I don't like
> Linux. I've been using OpenBSD about 14 years, once in a while
> FreeBSD.
>
> It uses a framebuffer which I'm not totally familiar with, and console
> output and X output can appear on its screen.  It's a 2.8 inch TFT LCD
> with LED backlight and touchscreen, plugs into the GPIO connector.
> It's supported partly by Adafruit's patches to the Linux kernel,
> connects mostly to the SPI interface and a couple GPIO pins, sells for
> about $40.
>
> If I do a dmesg to a file, then shut down, plug in the board, boot
> back up and do a dmesg to another file and compare the files it looks
> like nothing on the board is recognized.  New hobby.
>
> Anyone done anything with one?
>
>   Alan
>
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