Pi 2 + 320x240 Touchscreen + Kali1.1.0-rpi2.img

[hanshass]

Who can help me to get my 2.8" PiTFT Setup done?

1. I have a fresh installed "Kali 1.1.0 RPi2.img" Setup on the MicroSD
2. The 2.8" Touchpad is completely white after boot.....the whole time....theres no color-change
3. I have added the Ardafruit-Repo in Terminal and wrote in SSH-Terminal
"root@kali:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && reboot now" ......Screen on the Pi was still white
4. After reboot i tried this
"root@kali:~# uname -a"
Linux kali 3.18.9-v7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 7 07:12:24 EST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
"root@kali:~# sudo adafruit-pitft-helper -t 28r"

Type = 28r
[PITFT] Updating X11 default calibration...
[PITFT] Updating X11 setup tweaks...
grep: /home/pi/.profile: No such file or directory
Adding 'export FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1'
/usr/bin/adafruit-pitft-helper: line 169: /home/pi/.profile: No such file or directory
[PITFT] Exiting due to error: Unable to update X11 setup

So whats to do to get my PiTFT to work?
Hope someone can help me!

[cegha04]

I use Kali on my laptop. Kali uses Gnome. PiTFT code is designed for X11 which Raspbian uses. I do not know off the top of my head how to convert the work they have done to work on Gnome. You may be better off trying to get Kali to run X11 & if you can make it do that, then the code should just work like normal.

But that is the error your getting is that it's trying to patch & boot X11 which isn't running.

Edit:Actually even if you got X11 running, it may need some slight tweaking. Those directories are for Raspbian locations. You would need to change the scripts to point to where those files would install on Kali. It may or may not be the same location.

[adafruit2]

heya it looks like Kali has a custom kernel, and they're moving from 3.12 to 3.18 which they have to to support the Pi 2. What the maintainers of Kali have to do is apply our patches for PiTFT support OR use our 3.18.y branch https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-raspberrypi-linux and then apply the wifi injection patches.

[bpb]

Hey all. For what it's worth, there's now a tweaked version of adafruit-pitft-helper up on GitHub and in the apt repo. On a recent Pi 2 Kali image under a root login, it should work like so:

curl -SLs https://apt.adafruit.com/install | bash
apt-get update
apt-get install adafruit-pitft-helper
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot
adafruit-pitft-helper -t 28r -u /root

This will probably get you a working PiTFT, but as already mentioned, by itself it won't get you a working version of Kali with their custom kernel, since it's going to rely on our kernel package. (If anyone comes up with the right kernel, the helper script can be run just by grabbing a copy off GitHub so as to avoid pulling in the kernel package dependency.)

No promises, but I'll update this thread if I work up anything more useful.

[hanshass]

apt-get install curl lua5.1 triggerhappy fbset console-setup
sudo curl -L --output /usr/bin/rpi-update https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hexxe ... rpi-update
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update
wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/p ... 28_all.deb
dpkg -i raspi-config_20121028_all.deb

nano /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
-> change timeout to 1

sudo REPO_URI=https://github.com/notro/rpi-firmware rpi-update

nano /boot/config.txt
-> add dtparam=spi=on

sudo reboot

sudo modprobe spi-bcm2708
sudo modprobe fbtft_device custom name=pitft width=240 height=320

nano /etc/modprobe.d/fbtft.conf
-> options fbtft_device custom name=pitft width=240 height=320

nano /etc/modprobe.d/adafruit.conf
-> options fbtft_device custom name=pitft width=240 height=320 rotate=90

nano /etc/modules
-> snd-bcm2835
-> spi-bcm2708
-> fbtft_device
-> con2fbmap 1 1

sudo reboot

FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx

Thanks to fhlipZero @ http://hackaday.io/project/4557-handheld-kali-pi-v2

[fhlipzero]

^^^^i know that guy^^^^ lol, yea my handheld pi worked like a charm after that but i think i still had touchscreen issues. I know i updated mine with the pitft helper but never updated by hackaday.io, will do tonight!

[hanshass]

:)

yes, another way is to install the pi2 kali image, add the adafruit repo, install the pitft-helper, update and reboot!
Thanks, im out!

[bpb]

Some better documentation and a kernel package from our end:

https://learn.adafruit.com/kali-linux-o ... t/overview

Feedback welcome!

[hanshass]

Thanks alot......
works fine!