Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:27:13 -0400 From: Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anybody using an Adafruit PiTFT display? Message-ID: <CAOh3dDaDEPuBqQPGCH0BO13_3bCFt5Vtz%2BTWweXKtoBT1xmTHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonpoQwZHWAZcdGcEp=Xy-42sZ8RzV0ih=gS4oEgVZ_pFg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOh3dDaCq-RT02-yfqUUTbzw1kG=_MSCyZ6v-j9j1BTgaMJYEw@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonpoQwZHWAZcdGcEp=Xy-42sZ8RzV0ih=gS4oEgVZ_pFg@mail.gmail.com>
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In Linux you define FRAMEBUFFER = /DEV/FB1 On 5/8/14, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hm, looks like someone would need to write a VT driver for the thing. > > I don't know about how to get X onto it though. Do we have any support > for X to render to VT console? > > > -a > > > On 8 May 2014 00:36, Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> wrote: >> Adafruit doesn't support anything but Raspbian officially, but one guy >> there is a NetBSD user. I'm not really qualified but I bought the >> display and I'm starting to look into making it work under FreeBSD, >> but only because OpenBSD doesn't support the Pi and I don't like >> Linux. I've been using OpenBSD about 14 years, once in a while >> FreeBSD. >> >> It uses a framebuffer which I'm not totally familiar with, and console >> output and X output can appear on its screen. It's a 2.8 inch TFT LCD >> with LED backlight and touchscreen, plugs into the GPIO connector. >> It's supported partly by Adafruit's patches to the Linux kernel, >> connects mostly to the SPI interface and a couple GPIO pins, sells for >> about $40. >> >> If I do a dmesg to a file, then shut down, plug in the board, boot >> back up and do a dmesg to another file and compare the files it looks >> like nothing on the board is recognized. New hobby. >> >> Anyone done anything with one? >> >> Alan >> >> -- >> Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
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