New reTerminal, powers up with blank screen

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Hi all,

I have a workable solution that might help many of you:

  1. Prepare your reTerminal as outline above
  2. Download this prebuilt image, made by Seeed Studio: https://files.seeedstudio.com/wiki/ReTerminal/RPiOS_Images/2021-06-02-Raspbian-reTerminal/image_2021-06-02-Raspbian-reTerminal.zip
  3. Use the rpi-imager to flash the eMMC
  4. Use a decent USB-C power supply - the DSI LCD is sensitive to power drops - I cannot use my own Desktop PC to power it, I currently use a Dell USB-C power supply

@lcnittl, If you don’t use the Seeed Studio image, you need to build the reTerminal drivers:

  1. sudo apt install raspberrypi-kernel-headers git
  2. git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/seeed-linux-dtoverlays
  3. cd seeed-linux-dtoverlays
  4. sudo ./scripts/reTerminal.sh
  5. Reboot

Now, I couldn’t get this to work, but you might have better luck. Otherwise, just use the Seeed Studio version, which already has the drivers.

Lastly, many folks had issues after updating - if you can get yourselves into a good state where’s it’s working first, then move forward with getting the package updates working.

Cheers!

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