Anybody using an Adafruit PiTFT display?

[Alan Corey]

In Linux you define FRAMEBUFFER = /DEV/FB1

On 5/8/14, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hm, looks like someone would need to write a VT driver for the thing.
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> I don't know about how to get X onto it though. Do we have any support
> for X to render to VT console?
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> -a
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> 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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