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    Error creating SDL window after installing 3.5 inch display

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      throwaway 722
      last edited by

      So about a day ago I bought a 3.5 inch display on amazon with reviews claiming that it works on retropie. Since the display doesn't use HDMI and instead uses the GPIO ports, I installed drivers Wich work flawlessly with retropie. The issue that I am currently facing is that after installing said drivers, I keep recieving an error after it boots up:
      lv10: Error creating SDL window
      Could not initialize EGL
      lv10: renderer failed to initialize
      lv10: window failed to initialize

      I am completely lost here since I have tried reinstalling retropie from the boot image and from raspbian and I am using the correct version for my raspberry pi 4b

      The display is a 3.5 inch 480 x 320 display with a touchscreen if that helps

      Thanks in advance

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Most likely the display drivers disabled the Pi4's GPU drivers by modifying the bootloader configuration.
        Can you post your /boot/config.txt file ? How did you install the display drivers ?

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