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Hi

I'm using XBian with XBMC and other home-automation things.

I need to display XBMC via HDMI (occasionally) and always display some info via a LCD Display.

I discover this:
http://www.sainsmart.com/sainsmart-1-8-spi-lcd-module-with-microsd-led-backlight-for-arduino-mega-atmel-atmega.html
almost equal to this:
http://www.adafruit.com/products/358

But seem that required a kernel recompilation to add the ST7735FB driver:
http://www.whence.com/rpi/
http://marks-space.com/2012/11/23/raspberrypi-tft/

It's possible to request that the next XBian version already have this kernel patch?

Thanks for any feedback.

Firstly we need to know what the actual problem is!

Can you provide the standard details as defined in "Please read before you post" a link is provided in my signature.

I can "ONLY" guess that the driver is not recognised - the dmesg output will give the required details.

(14th Sep, 2013 04:56 AM)IriDium Wrote: [ -> ]Firstly we need to know what the actual problem is!

Can you provide the standard details as defined in "Please read before you post" a link is provided in my signature.

I can "ONLY" guess that the driver is not recognised - the dmesg output will give the required details.

Ok.
I order the hardware display yesterday, i'm studying how to use it, and i read that patch is still required on the lastest raspbian.
When hw arrive, i can dump more details, sorry if i open the topic too early.

We can't include that patch because it's based on 3.2/3.6 kernel respectively. XBian is running 3.9. (3.10 with Beta2).

(15th Sep, 2013 09:55 AM)mk01 Wrote: [ -> ]We can't include that patch because it's based on 3.2/3.6 kernel respectively. XBian is running 3.9. (3.10 with Beta2).

Hi, thanks for the feedback.


I'm also looking about this display (3.2'' TFT LCD with Touch Screen)
http://www.sainsmart.com/sainsmart-3-2-tft-lcd-display-touch-panel-pcb-adapter-sd-slot-for-arduino-2560.html
and also this:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=48956
that was already used with Raspbmc:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=48967&start=133


All display cited in this thread (and more LCD modules) are supported with this driver:

https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki



I think can exists a great interest to support this kind of display in XBian distro.

For my side, i don't need to display XBMC in the LCD; i need to simply display some bitmap with info. Touchscreen support is also an optional for me. And i still want to use XBian.

My problem is that i don't know anything about kernel/driver compilation...

At least, please help me to understand if i can try to do it
(the notro/fbtft is compatible with the kernel used by XBian?)