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thes3pt3mb3r

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[SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

I have https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch\_HDMI\_LCD_(C), version Rev4.1. When I connect it to my ARM board, nothing shows up (the screen only lights up slightly) even though the LED dot is blinking, indicating that Devuan is starting/running.

I possess an MSI monitor that also uses HDMI for display and it works, so I don’t understand what’s wrong with the former device.

One more thing mentioned in the instructions is setting the right resolution by pasting:
'hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt 1024 600 60 6 0 0 0
hdmi_drive=1' at the end of the config.txt file that is found on the TF card after flashing the Raspberry Pi image, but I do not know how to do this on Devuan because these instructions are only focused on Raspberry Pi OS.

I asked Waveshare about this and they said that the Linux kernel itself should support it. They did not help me much.

I do not know if there is any problem with the touch part of this device yet.

Last edited by thes3pt3mb3r (2026-05-08 13:04:44)

rbit

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

Is the arm system already up and running when you plug in the screen?
If so, try shutting it off, plug in the screen, then power the system back on.  Does anything come on the display screen now?

The config.txt file should be in /boot directory.

thes3pt3mb3r

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

No, what you wrote  doesn't really do anything.

I had screen plugged before turning it on, but I do not see what the issue is?

if my more 'PC' monitor didn't pose any issues like that,they both used standard HDMI interface for displaying although waveshare device additionally uses usb for touch.

Also I feel that it is important to mention that OS I use is basically DietPi's Debian converted to Devuan so, there is no config.txt in /boot dir.

Last edited by thes3pt3mb3r (2026-05-09 13:30:22)

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

This is part of dmesg log when I connnected it,waited, then I disconnected it.
[  121.206366] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: "1024x600": 60 48924 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 0x20 0x6
[  131.023945] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-platform
[  131.245001] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0eef, idProduct=0005, bcdDevice= 1.11
[  131.245036] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  131.245057] usb 3-1: Product: WS170120
[  131.245074] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: WaveShare
[  131.245091] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 220211
[  131.263396] input: WaveShare WS170120 as /devices/platform/fd840000.usb/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/0003:0EEF:0005.0004/input/input9
[  131.264563] hid-multitouch 0003:0EEF:0005.0004: input,hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [WaveShare WS170120] on usb-fd840000.usb-1/input0
[  141.814785] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
[  149.842736] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: "1024x600": 60 48924 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 0x20 0x6

I also have result of "cat /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid > /root/edid.txt" which is:
ےےےےےےپ€   
Eہ$ AX 0`:ڑV‡
I do not really see it fully since font that I use doesn't support these signs.

'hexdump -C edid.txt' is:
00000000  00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00  04 81 04 00 01 00 00 00  |................|
00000010  01 11 01 03 80 0f 09 00  0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 45 c0  01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01  |......E.........|
00000030  01 01 01 01 01 01 24 13  00 20 41 58 18 20 30 60  |......$.. AX. 0`|
00000040  3a 00 9a 56 00 00 00 18  00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00  |:..V............|
00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|
00000060  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10  |................|
00000070  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 87  |................|
00000080
Apparently it's corrupted here but I do not think that it is inherently corrupted since It worked with Laptop that had windows11.
I also have dmesg log that was captured when I added 'drm.debug=0xe.

Last edited by thes3pt3mb3r (2026-05-10 10:02:01)

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

Dmesg log of plugging HDMI(for displaying) and USB(for power),waiting just enough and plugging them out, this was produced with with me also adding 'drm.debug=0xe' to kernel commandline.
[  770.782136] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:vop2_plane_atomic_update [rockchipdrm]] vp0 update Smart0-win0[1920x1080->1920x1080@0x0] fmt[XR24 little-endian (0x34325258)_] addr[0x0000000000000000] <--- This line in original log repeats many many many times and it makes log hard to read.

[  981.428739] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:check_connector_changed] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] status updated from connected to disconnected
[  981.428825] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:check_connector_changed] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] Changed epoch counter 4 => 5
[  981.428886] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_sysfs_connector_hotplug_event] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] generating connector hotplug event
[  981.429073] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_fb_helper_hotplug_event]
[  981.429122] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe]
[  981.429173] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1]
[  981.429240] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] disconnected
[  981.429301] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_edid_connector_update] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] EDID changed, epoch counter 6
[  981.429373] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] No connectors reported connected with modes
[  981.429416] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] enabled? no
[  981.429473] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] Not using firmware configuration
[  981.429520] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] picking CRTCs for 1920x1080 config
[  981.429706] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:vop2_plane_atomic_disable [rockchipdrm]] Smart0-win0 disable
[  981.435763] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_dev_hotplug] fbdev: ret=0
[  988.267440] usb 6-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform
[  988.488629] usb 6-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0eef, idProduct=0005, bcdDevice= 1.11
[  988.488671] usb 6-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  988.488694] usb 6-1: Product: WS170120
[  988.488710] usb 6-1: Manufacturer: WaveShare
[  988.488728] usb 6-1: SerialNumber: 220211
[  988.503856] input: WaveShare WS170120 Touchscreen as /devices/platform/fd840000.usb/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/0003:0EEF:0005.0003/input/input7
[  988.504947] hid-generic 0003:0EEF:0005.0003: input,hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [WaveShare WS170120] on usb-fd840000.usb-1/input0
[  988.567520] input: WaveShare WS170120 as /devices/platform/fd840000.usb/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/0003:0EEF:0005.0003/input/input9
[  988.568685] hid-multitouch 0003:0EEF:0005.0003: input,hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [WaveShare WS170120] on usb-fd840000.usb-1/input0
[  991.634368] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:check_connector_changed] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] status updated from disconnected to connected
[  991.634468] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:check_connector_changed] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] Changed epoch counter 6 => 7
[  991.634530] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_sysfs_connector_hotplug_event] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] generating connector hotplug event
[  991.634714] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_fb_helper_hotplug_event]
[  991.634765] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe]
[  991.634820] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1]
[  991.636333] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_mode_prune_invalid] Rejected mode: "640x480": 60 25175 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 0x40 0xa (NOCLOCK)
[  991.636429] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_mode_prune_invalid] Rejected mode: "800x600": 56 36000 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 0x40 0x5 (NOCLOCK)
[  991.636490] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_mode_prune_invalid] Rejected mode: "800x600": 60 40000 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 0x40 0x5 (NOCLOCK)
[  991.636549] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_mode_prune_invalid] Rejected mode: "848x480": 60 33750 848 864 976 1088 480 486 494 517 0x40 0x5 (NOCLOCK)
[  991.636606] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_mode_prune_invalid] Rejected mode: "1024x768": 60 65000 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 0x40 0xa (NOCLOCK)
[  991.636664] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: "1024x600": 60 48924 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 0x20 0x6
[  991.636707] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_mode_prune_invalid] Rejected mode: "1024x600": 60 48924 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 0x20 0x6 (NOCLOCK)
[  991.636767] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] No connectors reported connected with modes
[  991.636812] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] enabled? yes
[  991.636873] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] Not using firmware configuration
[  991.636921] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] no mode found
[  991.636966] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_modeset_probe] picking CRTCs for 1920x1080 config
[  991.637160] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:drm_client_dev_hotplug] fbdev: ret=0
[  991.814004] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:check_connector_changed] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] Same epoch counter 7
[ 1023.840233] usb 6-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
[ 1031.163549] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm:check_connector_changed] [CONNECTOR:53:HDMI-A-1] Same epoch counter 7

rbit

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

OK I asked because on my arm system, display doesn't come up if I plug in hdmi after the system is started up, but if it is plugged in first then it works fine.  Also I'm using one of the arm images from devuan, not debian -> devuan.  That's probably why you're missing config.txt.

Looks like it's at least attempting a 1024x600 mode but that gets rejected (not supported), I'm afraid you'll need someone more knowledgeable than myself to help you.

thes3pt3mb3r

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

Could you please say who that may or where to go?

Well regardless EDID  itself is fine,and size is the same from both devices('wc -c' outputs 128). I checked it from device that screen did work with, to make sure(some newer Dell laptop with Windows11).

EDIT:
Corrected EDID that was pasted incorrectly in one of my comments above
Results of "for d in /sys/class/drm/*; do echo "== $(basename $d)"; cat $d/status 2>/dev/null; cat $d/modes 2>/dev/null; done"
for Waveshare screen;
"== card0
== card0-HDMI-A-1
connected
== card1
== renderD128
== version"

For MSI(comparison);
"== card0
== card0-HDMI-A-1
connected
1920x1080
1920x1080
1920x1080
1680x1050
1280x1024
1280x1024
1280x720
1280x720
1024x768
== card1
== renderD128
== version"

Last edited by thes3pt3mb3r (2026-05-10 10:45:18)

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Re: [SOLVED] HDMI touchscreen display doesn't really display

Comparison of part of dmesg of plugging Waveshare 7inch LCD HDMI (C) and MSI MAG 276CXF to the same device,ARM64 board.
https://privatebin.net/?6ea54c60a34f818 … STdn3hw1XN

EDIT:
I will find different screen

Last edited by thes3pt3mb3r (2026-05-11 12:09:24)