PiTFT (Raspberry Pi 2 B)

I’m trying to get a PiTFT display working on my RasPi 2 B. Info is at https://www.adafruit.com/product/2298

Adafruit is no help whatsoever. Their “Easy Install” tool only works with Raspbian, they’ve deleted the outdated instructions for manual install, and their support forum is pretty much saying “Reverse engineer the tool. If you can’t do that, tough.”

I’ve managed some of the necessary reverse engineering–what I think are the necessary lines in extraconfig.txt. But I’m stuck there. Can’t figure out what to add to the grub config (which is, I believe, the equivalent of the Raspbian cmdline.txt).

So the question is whether anyone has gotten one of these screens working with Tumbleweed, or if not, has anyone figured out what would have to be done to make it work?

Hi,

maybe you should give us more details and tell us what you have done and what is working so far. It seems it uses SPI for the display and I2C for the touchscreen. Maybe one or another is working or at least detected already? (check dmesg)

What do you want to add on the kernel command line (using Grub2)?

Good point. Unfortunately, I’m not sure what was actually working. By default, the screen comes on white. Something I did got it recognized to the point of going black, but I’m not certain what.

In any case, I gave up for now. I’ve installed Raspbian and used Adafruit’s script to get the screen working.

Someday when I have more time, I’ll see if I can reverse engineer the installation–that ought to be easier than trying to figure out what the script is doing.