Pitft 2.5 #1601

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Pitft 2.5 #1601

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This thing is doing a good job at driving me crazy!! I'm calm now ok I'm having trouble getting startx to work on my Pitft I can see the text until pi@raspberrypi startx
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after that the pitft goes into a black screen and that's it, but the HDMI is still sending to the monitor.

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Re: Pitft 2.5 #1601

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The usual way to start the GUI is:

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FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx &
Is that not working for you?

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