help setting up tft display

[Vasco_Matias]

Hi guys, I'm fairly new to Raspberry Pi. I got today a Admatec C-Berry tft display I bought on-line from a site advertising it as a Raspberry-Pi screen. However, it has proven to be a bit of a nightmare to set it up together with my Pi.

I downloaded the "instructions" from the site they included (http://admatec.de/sites/default/files/d ... rry.tar.gz) but it only contains manuals with the technical specifications and how to assemble it physically (via GPIO) and a couple of .h and .c files to test the screen.

So far I managed to make the makefile and obtain an executable to display a bmp file onto the screen. This works fine, so I see the screen outputting the bmp file while conected to my Pi.

However, I haven't got the slightest clue on how to turn that screen into the Pi's primary screen to output just like my TV does via de HDMI port. There's no further explanation whatsoever on the link nor on their site explaining how to do it...

I was hoping someone here with a bit more experience could help me with it.

Thanks a lot in advance.

[AndyD]

Unfortunately, displays that are connected to the Raspberry Pi via the GPIO pins can't act as the primary display. If you can get the display to act as a framebuffer, as you can with the displays that texy sells, then you can use a program called rpi-fbcp to copy the contents of the Raspberry Pi's primary display to your GPIO display.

[KValium]

Hello,

digging up this topic because i just bought the same screen and i want to know if you successfully configured yours. I've tried to setup Fbcp but it doesn't seems to work...

When i launch the process in background, it stops immediately...

EDIT: ok, the software is included in the C-Berry package (fb2cberry). After compilation, it works like a charm.

[Vasco_Matias]

Oh wow, thanks a lot! indeed it works like a charm