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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:07:31 +0100
From:      Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RPi 2 with 7-inch touchscreen.
Message-ID:  <6E62CADD-CDDF-45BB-986A-733F30F77DC8@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160328145733.0b9c9e3a42c7e623d6c68e82@bidouilliste.com>
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> On 28 Mar 2016, at 13:57, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> =
wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm not sure that we support it, from what I understand the official =
screen seems to use i2c for the touchscreen part (via the FT5406 IC).
> Could you run "i2c -s" on the different i2c busses to see if the chip =
answers ?

I see nothing on bus scans of /dev/iic[01], nut I know that I2C works as =
I can talk to other I2C devices (not connected at the moment).

What is more important is video; the "touch" aspect can wait.

M

>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:44:36 +0100
> Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>> Hi Folks,
>>=20
>> I have an RPi2 and I'm having some difficulties with the "official" =
7-inch touch-screen: =
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-eagerly-awaited-raspberry-pi-display/=

>>=20
>> I know the touchscreen works, because it works with RaspBian. I can't =
get any activity out of it with FreeBSD, however.
>>=20
>> I'm using FreeBSD-11-CURRENT, and the boot image is based on an =
11-CURRENT "official" download, but I added a very recent build of =
sysutils/u-boot-rpi2.
>>=20
>> I can build CURRENT on the machine (using a USB SSD, manually =
mounted), and I made sure I had the latest RPI2.DTB file in the FAT =
partition.
>>=20
>> The screen stays stubbornly OFF.
>>=20
>> Here is the relevant extract of CONFIG.TXT:
>>=20
>> hdmi_force_unplug=3D1
>> or
>> hdmi_force_hotplug=3D1
>> or
>> #hdmi_safe=3D1
>> or
>> hdmi_ignore_edid=3D0xa5000080
>> hdmi_drive=3D2
>> hdmi_group=3D2
>> hdmi_mode=3D28
>>=20
>> ... and I've tried a couple of combinations of the above with no =
luck. I can make an HDMI TV work, but not the inbuilt ribbon-cable =
interface.
>>=20
>> I suspect the DTB file as FreeBSD's is much smaller than RaspBian's, =
but I'm not all that clued in that department.
>>=20
>> Has anyone had any better luck than me?
>>=20
>> M
>> --
>> Mark R V Murray
>>=20
>=20
>=20
> --
> Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
>=20

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Mark R V Murray


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