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    Stuck in boot sequence after LCD driver install

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      zord96
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      I bought chinese 3.5 LCD tft display but after installing drivers it stuck at boot screen with bunch of lines.

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        mitu Global Moderator
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        Please add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

        What kind of display are you trying to install - can you add some info about it and from where you got the drivers ?

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          zord96 @mitu
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          @mitu actualy i dont know about the model of lcd. But it looks like to this. http://www.lcdwiki.com/3.5inch_RPi_Display

          I'm using rpi 4 2gb . I installed latest raspbian os add the drivers as show in the above link. But after the command LCD-show, Pi is automatically restarted and stuck in boot screen. tft display shows only a white screen. but i can ssh to the pi. Hoe to fix this

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            mitu Global Moderator @zord96
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            @zord96 You can probably fix the video breakage by editing /boot/config.txt and removing the lines that the driver script added (the original files should have a backup in the /boot folder).

            Try using the drivers from https://github.com/swkim01/waveshare-dtoverlays for the display, instead of the ones from goodtft/ LCD-Show .

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              zord96 @mitu
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              @mitu can you please explain it further..

              I flash a fresh os into sd card. Then, first install git clone https://github.com/swkim01/waveshare-dtoverlays.git this.

              then as in the link i used sudo cp waveshare-dtoverlays/waveshare35a.dtbo /boot/overlays/ this command, but it says that cant find a directory. Still tft is white color

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                mitu Global Moderator @zord96
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                @zord96 How did you download the waveshare-overlays folder ? Did you use git from the command line or you downloaded the repository as a zip file ? Your current folder, from where you execute the the cp command, should have a waveshare-overlays folder.

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                  zord96 @mitu
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                  @mitu i used the git command and i used cp in the /boot/overlays as root

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