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PiTFT is a family of TFT displays for the Pi including touchscreens.

PiTFT are distributed by AdaFruit https://www.adafruit.com

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Force Minecraft-pi to use PiTFT, not HDMI

My daughter just got the PiTFT for her Raspberry Pi, and I finally picked up myself a Pi(B+, woo woo)+touchscreen as well. Given that she's in second grade and I think every other kid in school plays Minecraft, she was extremely excited when she…
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Touchscreen display turns off whenever audio plays (RPI2, DAC+, PITFT)

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 2 with a Hifiberry DAC+ Pro and the Adafruit 3.5" touchscreen. I attached the DAC+ to the Pi, and then the touchscreen to the DAC after soldering some extra connectors. It works fine until I actually try to play audio, the…
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What have you done to make generic TFT touchscreen display work?

I made the mistake of buying a cheap 3.5in 480x320 TFT display from a Chinese retailer. its unbranded, customer service is awful, no software was sent with it. I was sent a file in Chinese that was supposedly the driver. it never could fully…
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RPi 2 and 3.95 TFT ili9488

I have bought a 3.95 inch TFTLCD for Raspberry Pi (ILI9488 from mcufriend) and I can't get it to work. I am just mildly experienced with Raspberry and Linux, but the way this type of screen was shown I thought it is simple plug-configure…
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How to install PiTFT and use to the GPIO for other usage (like serial console)

I am about to install PiTFT on a RPi model B. However, doing so, I will lose the GPIOs for other usage (like a serial cable cable, for instance). Is it possible to install a PiTFT and still have a serial console cable connected somehow to the RPi…
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Pygame from console with PiTFT

I wrote a simple script that uses pygame to display the information. However, I found that it won't display on screen when I call it from terminal through SSH. I found this guide/solution on adafruit, but it apparently doesn't work. sudo python…
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Is it possible to disable the boot messages and terminal on the PiTFT while using fbcp

I am using a Raspberry Pi 3, and I set it up with the Adafruit 3.2 resistive TFT screen. I am using the fbcp setup so that frambuffer0 is being copied onto the screen. I would like a custom image on the screen during boot and for it to stay on…
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Touchscreen Pi GPIO Connection

I'm working on David Hunt's Touchscreen Pi Timelapse Controller (https://learn.adafruit.com/touchscreen-pi-timelapse-controller/overview) and have encountered some difficulty in the the hardware section of the instructions. I have a Raspberry Pi…
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How to hook LCD to breadboard using T cobbler?

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong here: Now I am a newb and I have watched 5-7 intro videos about the cobbler and breadboard, but they are always doing LEDs. I was under the impression that this cobbler just makes it easy to see/plug/test things…
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How to display a GPU surface on a afafruit TFT screen?

I'm playing with a PiTFT Plus display on a Raspberry Pi 2 using the Adafruit modified version of Raspian Jessie for this screen. The display looks ok for most things, but I'd like to play a video using omxplayer. I like omxplayer because it…
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Raspberry Pi LCD TFT not working

Well, I bought a Chinese LCD TFT touchscreen, 3.5 inches, but I cant get it working, because I cant find the drivers. The only thing it says in the back is www.mcufriend.com, but the page is not available. I tried following this tutorial, but the…
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PiTFT: Cause terminal blanking to disable screen backlight, let touchscreen wake terminal

I have a raspberry pi model B rev 2, with the Adafruit PiTFT 2.8" w/ touchscreen. I'm running the standard raspbian install, after following the instructions on this page. What I want to do is set up the pi such that when the console blanks from…
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Display raspicamera on PiTFT screen

There is tutorial like texys-2-8-inch-touchscreen-with-raspicamcorder-step-1 that use a tool that copy framebuffer rpi-fbcp. After installation of notro firmware and loading PiTFT module : sudo REPO_URI=https://github.com/notro/rpi-firmware…
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Output SDL to TFT screen from console

I'm trying to make a SDL program (fastdosbox) output to an adafruit TFT screen. The screen is fb1. In the console I tried typing SDL_FBDEV=/dev/fb1 but it still outputs to the HDMI screen. If I startx and then load fastdosbox, it will work, but it's…
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Show higher resolution on small screen (scale down)

I am using the PiTFT by Adafruit (see product page). It connects as a framebuffer device with 320x240px. I do not need to say that this is a bit low to display full web pages. Is there a way to create a kind of virtual display that displays…
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