Gamepi20 screen and controller not working
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Hi one month ago i've bought a GamePi20 to wire to my raspberry pi zero W
the main issue is that i've tried to install it by the two methods from the official website (with retropie preconfigured image and manually).
Always is showing a blank screen and when I try to use the controller doesn't works too.
(link to the image of gamepi blank screen) https://ibb.co/gVzXmhW
this test was made with the prebuild image given inside this webpage https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/GamePi20
more concretely this image https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p0ZP9lnxIu-2mvGVU91y_Z_Z0VdJC7oV/view
and I should add too that the battery works correctly with the led and my raspberry works too.
as there's not so much info about that it's a bit difficult to solve it by yourself
Any idea? Thanks.
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We don't support 3rd party images - if the image provided by the vendor doesn't work, then you should contact them and ask for support.
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I am having the same exact issue. And I'm using the official Retropie Image on this site. ( https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.5.1/retropie-4.5.1-rpi1_zero.img.gz )
I've also gone so far as ordered another Gamepi20 (thinking my first one was defective) and the new one that just came in does the exact same thing.
If I hook it up to an external TV, it does display everything properly, but the LCD screen does not mirror or seem to display anything on the Gamepi20, when it should.
It seems to work fine for ETA prime here in this video:
What do you guys think? I'm about to return both of them if it doesn't work.
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@DelsArcade said in Gamepi20 screen and controller not working:
What do you guys think? I'm about to return both of them if it doesn't work.
Did you follow the steps from https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/GamePi20#Method_2:_Install_driver for installation over the RetroPie's image ?
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has anyone got this working.. I tried the image from waveshare and it works.. but not latest retropie. i tried to install using the retropie official image and that one gives blank screen.
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have you managed to fix it?
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@DelsArcade hello..i am wondering the best way to change the size of the image...the text and gameplay are extremely small
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@h2805270 et all, there is a step missing on the waveshare wiki, you need to uncomment the dtparam=spi=on line in /boot/config.txt
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@mitu Thanks for your suggestion. I had the same problem as the original poster. Ah yes ... read the instructions.
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