Waveshare Spotspear 3.5" Touch Screen Working with Rune

[hondagx35]

[soyelrichal]

Hi!! I'm a novice in this of PI 3. Thanks for the tutorial, but I have a question. step number 5 I do not know how to do it ... any help? (Create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf ).
Thanks!!

[janui]

[soyelrichal]

[luthier]

Hello again guys, after some time i got back at this and got the 3.5" display to work but i am now facing a new issue.
The screen is in landscape mode which is fine but the touchscreen panel seems to be 90 degrees rotated relative to the display.
I have googled a good 3 hours now but nothing fixed this issue.
Anyone has any tips/help ?

[luthier]

Alright in order to help others these are the full steps i took to get my 3.5" TFT touchscreen up and running with RuneAudio:
1)Download the image file for RuneOS v0.3-beta (23/03/2016) and burn to SD (I used Etcher)
2)Connect power and ethernet to rpi and boot the sd up
3)From a computer that is on the same network as the rpi open a browser and type runeaudio/ ,this is the control panel for RuneAudio and from here you can configure wifi access if you have a wifi module from the settings in the top right corner.
4)After internet access is fixed we need a file transferring program (i used FileZilla on windows) and an ssh client (i used putty).If you are on windows start a terminal and type in "arp -a" without quotes to find out which ip address the raspberry pi has or you can also see this in the runeaudio/ page by going to network in options.
5)From putty connect to the pi and login (user root, pass rune) and you should be greeted with some text.From there we need to use the tutorial in this post but it doesn't wanna work so instead do these commands:
pacman -S xorg-server --force ,and say "y" to all the confirmations about replacing packages and such
pacman -S xf86-video-fbturbo once the terminal comes back from updating xorg server(these commands may take few minutes so be patient)
pacman -S xf86-inpit-evdev
pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev
pacman -S xinput_calibrator
pacman -S glibc
Now follow the original tutorial from step 2. which is downloading the zip with the drivers and use FileZilla to transfer all the files and edit all the configs from there.
For step 3. in the /boot/config.txt the gpu_mem option already exists so do not paste it in, instead change the one that already exists to be 128.
Also instead of "dtoverlay=waveshare35a" type in "dtoverlay=waveshare35a-overlay.dtb,rotate=0" and find in line 75 the option lcd_rotate=2 and add a # to comment it out. The rotate=0 and commenting of lcd_rotate=2 was done because otherwise the touchpanel and display had a 90 degrees difference which i can not yet sort out to be in widescreen mode, but in portrait mode everything works.

Reboot the pi either from putty by typing "reboot" or from the browser go to menu turn off and click on the reboot button.
Once the pi reboots you notice that the display is not really working and you see a terminal there asking for a login.

Reconnect using putty and type in this command: "xinit -- :1" without quotes and the display will work! (ignore any errors, google says they are not important)
That's it the touchscreen works although it is in portrait mode.If anyone knows how to rotate it it would be awesome.
Thanks for everyone's help!!!
You're awesone

[rlsten]

You might try rotate=90 or rotate=270 instead of rotate=0 in the line "dtoverlay=waveshare35a-overlay.dtb,rotate=0" to get landscape.

[luthier]

Yes but then the display would be in landscape mode but the touchscreen would still work as if it were in portrait mode.This is the only issue left for me to solve before the screen works perfectly

[rlsten]

[Ripa]

I have trying to make this work now for several days, still not working

I have the waveshare 3.5 inch RPI LCD (A) display even when i do this step by step in still no screen.
if i load the image thats on the disk the screen work, but not work with rune.

i there somebody that can help me out with this

i use rasberry 3 and want to use RuneAudio 0.4-beta for Raspberry Pi2/3

2)Connect power and ethernet to rpi and boot the sd up

3)From a computer that is on the same network as the rpi open a browser and type runeaudio/ ,this is the control panel for RuneAudio and from here you can configure wifi access if you have a wifi module from the settings in the top right corner.

4)After internet access is fixed we need a file transferring program (i used FileZilla on windows) and an ssh client (i used putty).If you are on windows start a terminal and type in "arp -a" without quotes to find out which ip address the raspberry pi has or you can also see this in the runeaudio/ page by going to network in options.

*** how can i access the RPI with filezilla? i have an ip address but i get an error***


5)From putty connect to the pi and login (user root, pass rune) and you should be greeted with some text.From there we need to use the tutorial in this post but it doesn't wanna work so instead do these commands:

pacman -S xorg-server --force ,and say "y" to all the confirmations about replacing packages and such
pacman -S xf86-video-fbturbo
pacman -S xf86-inpit-evdev
pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev
pacman -S xinput_calibrator
pacman -S glibc

**** i get error ***



Now follow the original tutorial from step 2. which is downloading the zip with the drivers and use FileZilla to transfer all the files and edit all the configs from there.
For step 3. in the /boot/config.txt the gpu_mem option already exists so do not paste it in, instead change the one that already exists to be 128.
Also instead of "dtoverlay=waveshare35a" type in "dtoverlay=waveshare35a-overlay.dtb,rotate=0" and find in line 75 the option lcd_rotate=2 and add a # to comment it out. The rotate=0 and commenting of lcd_rotate=2 was done because otherwise the touchpanel and display had a 90 degrees difference which i can not yet sort out to be in widescreen mode, but in portrait mode everything works.

Reboot the pi either from putty by typing "reboot" or from the browser go to menu turn off and click on the reboot button.
Once the pi reboots you notice that the display is not really working and you see a terminal there asking for a login.

Reconnect using putty and type in this command: "xinit -- :1" without quotes and the display will work! (ignore any errors, google says they are not important)
That's it the touchscreen works although it is in portrait mode.If anyone knows how to rotate it it would be awesome.
Thanks for everyone's help!!!