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※Price Increase NotificationThe TFT glass cell makers such as Tianma,Hanstar,BOE,Innolux has reduced or stopped the production of small and medium-sized tft glass cell from August-2020 due to the low profit and focus on the size of LCD TV,Tablet PC and Smart Phone .It results the glass cell price in the market is extremely high,and the same situation happens in IC industry.We deeply regret that rapidly rising costs for glass cell and controller IC necessitate our raising the price of tft display.We have made every attempt to avoid the increase, we could accept no profit from the beginning,but the price is going up frequently ,we"re now losing a lot of money. We have no choice if we want to survive. There is no certain answer for when the price would go back to the normal.We guess it will take at least 6 months until these glass cell and semiconductor manufacturing companies recover the production schedule. (Mar-03-2021)

ER-TFTV043A3-3 is 480x272 pixel 4.3 inch color tft lcd display for the Raspberry Pi with optional USB port resistive or capacitive touch panel screen,optional USB cable and HDMI cable. Of course ,it is not limited to the Raspberry Pi ,it can be used for all the universal HDMI port hardwares such as mini PCs, Raspberry Pi, BB Black, Banana Pi, as well as general desktop computers.

Today we are going to learn how to interface LCD TFT display using SPI interface with Raspberry Pi and also how to change the orientation of the screen. The SPI display comes in different sizes and speeds. Here is the list of all different type of RPi display with SPI interface from waveshare.

As I am using the 3.2-inch display without high-speed SPI and with Rasbian OS I am using this comment to install the driversudo ./LCD32-show.below is a table of different installation comments for different LCDs and OS.

Crisp, high-res, with great viewing angles (IPS), this 1.3" square, 240x240 pixel, colour LCD will add some pizzazz to your Raspberry Pi or Arduino projects.

Use this 2.2" Color TFT LCD Display to add a vibrant color display to your Raspberry Pi projects. Just wire up your display and use the SPI protocol to communicate with your TFT. This is more advanced than our Raspberry Pi LCD shields since you have to wire using a breadboard and use the fbtft Raspberry Pi Library when configuring so we recommend it for intermediate users.

For Arduino users, this display is also Arduino compatible however we recommend our 11 Pin 2.2" TFT LCD Display which can be plugged directly into an Arduino UNO or Mega so you don"t have to use a breadboard.

The 3.5 inch RPI lcd display TFT Capacitive Touch Screen is a display module can be applied to Raspberry pi 3 B+ Pi Zero etc. It can be used as raspberry pi x window display terminals.

The RPI LCD Display TFT Capacity Touch Screen Modules used 28 pins out of raspberry pi 40 pin. When installing the module attention to align the first leg of the raspberry pi and LCD module.

The Raspberry Pi screen can work with fbcp software driver, you can adjust the resolution by the software (The RPI screen original resolution is 320×480).

The Raspberry Pi Display support 125MHz SPI signal input, It can display stable without Flicker. When it work with Raspberry Pi, the refresh rate is about 50fps, it is enough to play the video and game.

New published TFT LCD Display for commercial and industrial use. Screen size is 1.14 inch. A very common and hot selling size for small size TFT display. Improve your product design by adding our 135 * 240 resolution product. 550 nits allow this lcd to work well indoors.

The Interface of this LCD is 4 Wire SPI. We can also customize other types of interfaces and FPCs for you. ST7789V is the driver IC of the tft lcd. THE lowest operating temperature can reach -20°C (-4°F) and highest is 70°C (158°F).

(1) After the LCD driver is installed, the system will automatically restart. After the startup is successful, the LCD can display and touch normally,

C. The retropie-rpi1_zero system cannot log in via SSH (no network port and wifi module). You need to copy the driver through the serial port. For details, see RaspberryPi Zero open serial instructions

UCTRONICS U6111 is a 3.5” TFT LCD display with SPI interface and touchscreen support. It works with all standard Raspberry Pi models and supports operating systems like Raspbian, Ubuntu, Kali and RetroPie. Windows 10 IoT is NOT supported.

I just finished two solid days of work trying to get an HDMI LCD panel working with one of the inexpensive older model TFT LCD displays in a "Dual mode" configuration. There was a tremendous amount of help from this post, which got me most of the way there, but the infamous "last mile" still took me a while. I"m leaving some breadcrumbs here, as well as asking the group if anyone knows of a better way.

I am working on a device that uses a Raspberry Pi 4 as an embedded controller. For output, I need an 2K DSI LCD w/ its own HDMI adapter (Sharp LS055R1SX04, about $65 USD), as well as an inexpensive TFT LCD used for a basic touch user interface. The TFT LCD, which uses an ILI9341 LCD controller and an ads7846 touchscreen controller, can be had for about $10 USD. The Pi was flashed with the latest Raspberry Pi OS 32 bit then updated, so everything is current as of this writing (March 2021).

Initial configuration of the display worked with little issue. The HDMI adapter for the Sharp LCD works at 50 Hz only, so it requires custom timings. The TFT LCD uses the same controller chips as the original 3.5" Raspberry Pi LCD, so I was able to activate it with the rpi-display dtoverlay.

Booting with the above correctly revealed two framebuffer devices listed with ls -l /dev/fb*. The display initially showed as all white, then went all black, indicating correct initialization. However, when starting the desktop GUI, only the Sharp LCD showed any contents, and only it was listed as a device by xrandr.

The relevant X11 configuration files are located in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. The reference forum post mentioned replacing the contents of the file 99-fbturbo.conf. My first problem that took way to long to discover: 99-fbturbo.conf gets automatically deleted if the vc4-fkms-v3d overlay is activated (which is the default for a RasPi4). So, the configuration would work fine, but would suddenly stop working if the Pi is rebooted!

Based on claims of the above not being "ideal", I experimented with various settings. If the above file is deleted entirely, xrandr reports the Sharp LCD as the sole display. If you put the above file in place, and remove all references to the Sharp LCD (including the Device, Monitor, Screen, and ServerLayouts), xrandr correctly reports the TFT LCD, but not the Sharp LCD. I left JUST the Device sections in, but xrandr failed to correctly report one of the other.

No matter what combinations I tried, I was unable to get xrandr to list both the HDMI display and the SPI display at the same time. If all parts above ARE explicitly listed in the configuration, running xrandr reports an error that the RandR extension is not loaded. Thus I was unable to use the more advanced built in layout management of X11 using the RandR extension.

Simply using raspi-config"s System Options to boot to the Desktop works as expected, as my X11 configuration changed the last option in the "ServerFlags" section to:

Since xrandr was INOP in this configuration, I could not use xinput --map-to-output to limit touchscreen coordinates to the TFT LCD. Instead, I settled on using a combination of touch screen rotation, and input coordinate translation:

Note that the TransformationMatrix is very specific to a 1440x2560 in portrait mode with 320x240 in landscape mode to the right of the Sharp LCD. The numbers are basically:

My question to the group, if anyone knows, is simple: is it possible to configure a Pi4 so an SPI connected LCD can co-exist without disabling the RandR extension in X11?

My question to the group, if anyone knows, is simple: is it possible to configure a Pi4 so an SPI connected LCD can co-exist without disabling the RandR extension in X11?

Now these SPI displays used to be driven by a driver that only exposed them as /dev/fbX nodes. They now appear to be under the tinydrm driver, so I would have expected them to show up as DRM/KMS devices. The output from modetest would be interesting to see (X can not be running when you run modetest). "xrandr --verbose" may tell you if you have vc4-(f)kms-v3d enabled. (Sorry, I don"t have one of these displays to test with)

As I mentioned in my initial post, what "works" for me is the "rpi-display" overlay. If I execute fdtdump /boot/overlays/rpi-display.dtbo on my current configuration, I see this fragement:

I"m not real familiar with this stuff (I stumbled across it while I was stuck in the mud), but I assume by these results that there are two different drivers possible: fb_ili9341 which is the framebuffer version, and ili9341 which I assume is the DRM version. If I understand how this all fits together, it appears that when I select the "rpi-display" overlay, its picking the framebuffer version due to the last line in modules.alias?

Adding "tinydrm" to my google searches revealed this Github issue: https://github.com/notro/tinydrm/issues/14, and it mentions in passing "here is an example overlay source file", pointing to the rpi-display overlay. However, when I look at the referenced source, https://github.com/notro/tinydrm/blob/m ... verlay.dts, it contains this:

On my CM4 xrandr didn"t even list the extra SPI display, whereas on x86 it is listing all the connected and disconnected displays (7 of them total!). On both systems they show up under /sys/class/drm, so it may be the way that X enumerates the displays.

Strange that the SPI display showed up for you but not me, even if it did then crash. I"ve tried an upgrade of my RaspiOS 32bit install (although with latest kernel) and it still doesn"t want to acknowledge the SPI display through xrandr. Could you post the output from xrandr when it sees both displays?

is needed for xrandr to see the display (listed as Unknown19-1 for me, presumably as X hasn"t been built with any knowledge of DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_SPI being 19. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest ... ode.h#L390

However it is as I suspected - we have no mouse pointer on the TFT screen, presumably as X can"t cope with one display having a cursor plane and the other not. I don"t know the best way to overcome that.

*edit*: Minor correction there. If the two displays overlap, then the mouse cursor disappears on the SPI screen. If you set them to be independent (eg "xrandr --output Unknown19-1 --right-of HDMI-1"), then X switches mode and renders the mouse cursor.

Which sounds like yours (i.e the "Unknown19-1). I got the "lock up" again, but it turns out that lock-up was actually VNC (I"ve been using that to develop, as the text on a Sharp LCD is VERY tiny to look at in desktop mode). My console was still alive, so I hooked up an actual keyboard and mouse to the Pi, and the desktop on my Sharp LCD came alive. With the above two commands you"ve discovered, I now have two desktops. Sort of...

It appears as if the upper left hand corner of my Sharp LCD desktop is mirrored on the small LCD. It"s not two independent desktops. Instead, it"s the same desktop duplicated. I suspect that is probably more X configuration than driver stuff, however.

It appears as if the upper left hand corner of my Sharp LCD desktop is mirrored on the small LCD. It"s not two independent desktops. Instead, it"s the same desktop duplicated. I suspect that is probably more X configuration than driver stuff, however.