Hi there,
I’ve tried to run the Headphone Amp for Raspberry Pi with fbtft (on Raspbian Buster) without any success. I managed to get the modules loaded and instrumented startup sequence and gpios like this (taken from the st7789 python lib):
options fbtft_device name=flexfb gpios=dc:9,cs:1,led:19 speed=4000000 bgr=1 fps=60
options flexfb setaddrwin=0 width=240 height=240 init=-1,0x01,-2,150,-1,0x36,0x70,-1,0xB2,0x0C,0x0C,0x00,0x33,0x33,-1,0x3A,0x05,-1,0xB7,0x14,-1,0xBB,0x37,-1,0xC0,0x2C,-1,0xC2,0x01,-1,0xC3,0x12,-1,0xC4,0x20,-1,0xD0,0xA4,0xA1,-1,0xC6,0x0F,-1,0xE0,0xD0,0x04,0x0D,0x11,0x13,0x2B,0x3F,0x54,0x4C,0x18,0x0D,0x0B,0x1F,0x23,-1,0xE1,0xD0,0x04,0x0C,0x11,0x13,0x2C,0x3F,0x44,0x51,0x2F,0x1F,0x1F,0x20,0x23,-1,0x21,-1,0x11,-1,0x29,-2,100,-3
I’ve also tried cs=1 and different startup sequences (skipping display reset, some Adafruit-samples) without any success.
dmesg | grep fb shows a lot of information and the framebuffer devices /dev/fb0 and fb1 appear (eg. SPI speed and mode, memory buffers). None of them can be used by fbi or other renderers (ioctl-error whereas the user is in video group and/ or adding sudo doesn’t solve this problem). I also can’t remap boot console to the display (cmdline.txt with fbcon).
The python module works fine and I can render text and images. The scrolling example is even interrupted by fbtft, which resets the display while the text scrolls (display turns black). Any hints on that?
And a general question: does it make sense to fire up a complex interpreter on something like a Pi Zero just to wiggle some GPIOs? Wouldn’t be the kernel/ framebuffer-approach be more power saving/ straight forward?