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    Help Setting up Display on Raspberry Pi Zero

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      shadow1102
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      I'm working on a personal project to create a retropie using a raspberry pi zero and a 2.4" piTFT. I've followed a few guides including the one on youtube where someone from adafruit teaches you to install it on a raspberry pi 3 so i went ahead and followed that guide except using the raspberry pi zero retropie image. I installed the required kernels to set up the display and ran sudo adafruit-pitft-helper -t 28r to set up the display. Then ran through the openGL based games and emulators guide on adafruit and set up the frame buffer:
      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install cmake git
      git clone https://github.com/tasanakorn/rpi-fbcp
      cd rpi-fbcp/
      mkdir build
      cd build/
      cmake ..
      make
      sudo install fbcp /usr/local/bin/fbcp

      added /usr/local/bin/fbcp & into the /etc/rc.local file
      and edited the /boot/config file with dtoverlay=pitft28-resistive,rotate=90,speed=80000000,fps=60.

      I connect my display to the raspberry pi zero and try it out and i just get a white screen. So i tried to connect it to my raspberry pi 3 and moved the micro sd card to the pi 3 and it works. Any ideas as to why its not working on the pi zero??

      Thanks in advance

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      • dankcushionsD
        dankcushions Global Moderator
        last edited by

        sounds like you were actually using a RPI3 image if it works on your pi3 and not your zero. i think it's impossible for a zero/1 retropie image to work on a pi3?

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          shadow1102
          last edited by

          I downloaded the retropie image for the pi zero and it was fine up until I set up the display, at that point it just white screens on me. I can try to redownload the image again.

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          • dankcushionsD
            dankcushions Global Moderator
            last edited by

            this might be relevent: https://github.com/tasanakorn/rpi-fbcp/issues/5

            (rpi 0 is rpi 1 to all intents and purposes)

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