I tried that first. I have bought these things from a company called SmartiCase but what it is a stand that the screen screws to and the Pi screws into the backside of the screen mount. Conceptually sort of like a VESA mount. I've made probably a half dozen of the using Pi 4's and have never had a problem.
The company that sells the case also provide a standard video ribbon cable but I had bought the adapter ribbon cable to go from the board on back of screen over to the smaller cable connectors on the Pi 5. I knew the cable was different so I had bought them in advance.
Additionally the company gives the kit buyer what is like a splitter cable so it has a USB-C Female that plugs into the power supply but splits into a USB-C for the Pi and a USB-Micro for the display power. I bought authorized Pi 5 power supplies. A couple from Canakit and a couple from Vilros. Both of whom are authorized Pi resellers.
I think it has something to do with the config.txt file is not quite right. They unfortunately don't get into much detail with that 7" screen as far as what I should see
But this is an example of what's in the Pi documentation. Disregard the sizing stuff I am more interested in the part that says vc4-kms-dsi-7inch
which I believe are what the smaller connectors are on a Pi 5.My actual config.txt line is different. I just pulled the sd card out of the Pi4 that I used to confirm the screens weren't dead. So both my Pi 5 AND Pi 4 have this line directly below in config.txt. So what is the dsi-7inch even there for in the Pi documentationOn top of that, while I was searching last night I came across a long running thread between a Raspberry Pi Software Engineer and what seemed to be an external Software Engineer and the external person was talking about some bug associated with the 7" screen but they were so far over my head I had no clue beyond there was a description that was same as mine and this was like only 2 - 3 days old
The company that sells the case also provide a standard video ribbon cable but I had bought the adapter ribbon cable to go from the board on back of screen over to the smaller cable connectors on the Pi 5. I knew the cable was different so I had bought them in advance.
Additionally the company gives the kit buyer what is like a splitter cable so it has a USB-C Female that plugs into the power supply but splits into a USB-C for the Pi and a USB-Micro for the display power. I bought authorized Pi 5 power supplies. A couple from Canakit and a couple from Vilros. Both of whom are authorized Pi resellers.
I think it has something to do with the config.txt file is not quite right. They unfortunately don't get into much detail with that 7" screen as far as what I should see
But this is an example of what's in the Pi documentation. Disregard the sizing stuff I am more interested in the part that says vc4-kms-dsi-7inch
which I believe are what the smaller connectors are on a Pi 5.
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dtoverlay=vc4-kms-dsi-7inch,invx,invyCode:
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3dStatistics: Posted by ankonaskiff17 — Mon Aug 12, 2024 4:08 pm