Portsdown 5 Installation

[G8GKQ]

Hi Stan

That looks to be a problem with the screen that you are using. Please could you try it with the official touchscreen (and, if that works, post a photo of the one that didn't work?)

73

Dave

[NJ6E]

Hello again,

Here is an update to my progress in installing Portsdown 5. In the prior message, Dave concluded that the DSI 7-inch touchscreen that I was using likely is not compatible with Portsdown 5, and that I should try the install with an official Pi 7-inch touchscreen attached.

I decided to exchange screens with a Portsdown 4 system that I have that uses the official Pi 7-inch screen. I found that the DSI display appears to work fine with all functions of the PD4, as others have noted. A photo of the back of that display is attached. In using the Pi screen for the PD5, the install did run this time, with Stage 2 taking less than a minute to complete. I did see the Stage 2 install messages, but the screen image is doubled and distorted, as shown in the attached photo. To confirm that there was no hardware problem, I made a new 64-bit Trixie desktop OS SD card and it runs normally on the Pi 5/Pi screen with keyboard and mouse attached.

I am not sure why my PD5 installation continues to fail, but I hope that my experiences are of help in program development. My interest is in trying out the revised receive and test equipment functions, but I certainly can wait for PD5 to become further developed before trying again.

73,

Stan NJ6E

[G8GKQ]

Hi Stan

Very interesting! I'm sure that you haven't, but please confirm once more that you have nothing connected to the HDMI sockets on the Raspberry Pi?

I'll do some test builds tomorrow to try to reproduce the problem.

73

Dave

[NJ6E]

Hi Dave,

Yes, that is correct. Nothing is attached to the Pi 5 other than the display, power and network cables.

73,

Stan NJ6E

[g0mjw]

There are two connectors for the screen on the PI5. Which one did you use? When I tried this, only one of them worked.

Mike