cant get screen to work

[rbaker]

@Cooleoe6 Take a look at the line in bold type along the top of the page.

[Cooleoe6]

sorry im new

[Brigane]

@Cooleoe6 Have you tried following this video guide?

[Cooleoe6]

@Brigane yes but mine is different as i only have a HDMI, power and touch screen ports.

[Brigane]

@Cooleoe6 How about some more info about your problem? Does the screen boot or not? Have you written this in the /boot/config.txt file?

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt 800 480 60 6 0 0 0

[Cooleoe6]

@Brigane i have done the first 2 but there is no HDMI_cvt

[Cooleoe6]

@Brigane the best ive managed to do was get the top left corner of the screen to show up but even then there was black bars on the screen to

[Cooleoe6]

i have posted my config file above if it helps

[Brigane]

@Cooleoe6 Have you tried with HDMI_cvt?

[Cooleoe6]

@Brigane there is no cvt in the config file.

[Cooleoe6]

@Brigane this is the screen i im trying to use
http://www.waveshare.com/product/5inch-hdmi-lcd-b.htm

[Brigane]

@Cooleoe6 you have to add "HDMI_cvt" to the config yourself, it's not there by default :)

[Cooleoe6]

@Brigane oh right sorry where do i put it?

[Brigane]

@Cooleoe6 in /boot/config.txt

#uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=1
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt=800 480 60 6 0 0 0