Pi4 with 5" Touchscreen

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Volumio Information

Volumio Version: 2.882
Hardware: Pi 4
DAC: USB
Screen: 5" Bigtreetech PITFT50 V2.0 DSI

Volumio working (ok, I don’t have sound yet but the web interface is working). Touchscreen app installed and enabled. I even see Volumio on the screen during boot-up and boot-down. But while running I just get a black screen.

I even turned on mouse pointer and can see the mouse move around where I touch - it’s just over a black screen.

I just realized the pi4 has two connectors for a screen - could that be the issue, that it’s displaying on the other connector? My cable isn’t long enough to get to the side connector to test without disassembling my setup.

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Please connect to Volumio via SSH and post the output of

systemctl status -l volumio-kiosk.service

The display needs to connected to the output labled HDMI0.

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volumio@music:~$ systemctl status -l volumio-kiosk.service
● volumio-kiosk.service - Volumio Kiosk
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/volumio-kiosk.service; disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2021-07-08 07:13:34 UTC; 15h ago
Main PID: 32596 (startx)
CGroup: /system.slice/volumio-kiosk.service
├─ 379 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
├─ 474 /bin/sh /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
├─ 475 /usr/bin/xprop -root -spy
├─32596 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx /etc/X11/Xsession /opt/volumiokiosk.sh
├─32615 xinit /etc/X11/Xsession /opt/volumiokiosk.sh – /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.qXZXZO22VS
├─32616 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.qXZXZO22VS
├─32654 /bin/bash /opt/volumiokiosk.sh
├─32671 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /opt/volumiokiosk.sh
└─32676 /usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/openbox-autostart OPENBOX

Jul 08 07:13:34 music startx[32596]: (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
Jul 08 07:13:34 music startx[32596]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
Jul 08 07:13:34 music startx[32596]: (==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time: Thu Jul 8 07:13:34 2021
Jul 08 07:13:34 music startx[32596]: (==) Using config directory: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d”
Jul 08 07:13:34 music startx[32596]: (==) Using system config directory “/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d”
Jul 08 07:13:34 music startx[32596]: modprobe: FATAL: Module g2d_23 not found.
Jul 08 07:13:34 music pulseaudio[379]: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Jul 08 07:13:35 music pulseaudio[379]: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message
Jul 08 07:13:35 music pulseaudio[379]: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message
Jul 08 07:13:35 music pulseaudio[379]: org.bluez.Manager.GetProperties() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method “GetProperties” with signature “” on interface “org.bluez.Manager” doesn’t exist

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Oh, and this is a DSI touchscreen, not HDMI. I checked and the ribbon port I connected to says “Display”, and the other one says “Camera”, so that’s not the issue.

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Good hint, I overlooked the “DSI” tag in your initial post.

Please post the result of

chromium-browser -version

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-bash: chromium-browser: command not found

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This indicates that not all necessary packages (at least chromium browser) did not download successfully during the installation of the Touch Display plugin.

Try uninstalling the plugin and re-installing it.

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Hah. That was it. Thanks!