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3.3.

 

Modify Display Orientation 

1

Open configuration file – config.txt and input 

 

sudo nano /boot/config.txt 
 

2

Find ”dtoverlay=tft35a” in config.txt and add rotate parameter in below formats: 

 
dtoverlay=tft35a:rotate=value 
 
When value is 0, it means to rotate 0 degree, in this case screen is vertical display 
When value is 90, it means to  rotate  90 degree, in this case screen is horizontal 
display 
When value is 180, it means  to  rotate  180 degree, in this case screen is vertical 
display 
When value is 270, it means to rotate 270 degree, in this case screen is horizontal 
display 
 

3

Press  Ctrl + X  and choose Y. Save and  exit and restart you will see changes 

accordingly to your modification. 
 
FAQ

 

After I changed the display orientation, the touch screen function is not working, 
what should I do? 
 
Solution: Please refer Chapter 3.0 and calibrate your screen again. 
 
 

 

 

Summary of Contents for 3.5" TFT

Page 1: ...Elegoo 3 5 TFT Touch Screen User Manual...

Page 2: ...ation System 11 2 1 Install Configured Raspbian system 11 2 2 Install Official Raspbian System 14 3 Advanced Function 20 3 1 Touch Screen Calibration 20 3 2 Install Virtual Keyboard 22 3 3 Modify Disp...

Page 3: ...is used only for our Elegoo 3 5 inch screen for Raspberry Pi and Raspbian system If you are using Linux system this manual wouldn t be a perfect reference and if you are using no Linux system then you...

Page 4: ...stive touch screen function Compatible with all versions of Raspberry Pi CE and RoHS certificated 2 3 5 inch touch screen size 3 Specifications Type TFT Touch Screen Interface SPI Touch panel control...

Page 5: ...l interrupt low level while the Touch Panel detects touching 18 LCD_RS LCD instruction control Instruction Data Register selection 19 LCD_SI TP_SI SPI data input of LCD Touch Panel 21 TP_SO SPI data o...

Page 6: ...3 Elegoo 3 5 inch TFT screen 4 One Micro SD with at least 4 GB space 32GB is preferred...

Page 7: ...5 One Micro USB cable USB type A to USB type B Micro 6 One SD card reader...

Page 8: ...7 One network cable 1 3 Software Preparation 1 3 1 Software Needed 1 SDFormatter exe used to format SD card...

Page 9: ...2 Win32DiskImager exe used to write system into SD card 3 Putty exe textual interface used on PC Attention The above 3 software are available in CD Where there is a file named Software...

Page 10: ...h can be used directly 1 3 2 Download System Image 1 Download the configured Raspbian system image with drivers pre installed from below link Https github com goodtft LCD show wiki Images Download add...

Page 11: ...to use one of the above system 2 Installation System 2 1 Install Configured Raspbian system 1 Put SD card into SD card reader and connect it with your PC 2 Run SDFormatter exe and choose your SD card...

Page 12: ...d and choose your SD card then click write till it finish and exit 4 Open your CD or tutorial downloaded from our web Elegoo com download Copy SSH file to your SD card and paste 5 Take out SD card and...

Page 13: ...Pic 2 5 Pic 26 Pic 27 FAQ I got blank white screen in this step what should I do 1 Your SD card might be defective Please change a new SD card and re write the system...

Page 14: ...an system means you will need to download the pure system image from Raspberry website https www raspberrypi org which doesn t have drivers pre installed 1 Put SD card into SD card reader and connect...

Page 15: ...a new txt file and name it SSH NO suffix like below 5 Check your IP address on your computer and click the network icon on the below right area and choose network setting Check your IP address as bel...

Page 16: ...ere will be notifications popping up in your first connection just click Yes as shown in Pic 2 14 You will need to login in account and password as shown in Pic 2 15 input pi for login as and the pass...

Page 17: ...Pic 2 14 Pic 2 15 9 Input below commands in turn sudo apt mark hold raspberrypi bootloader sudo apt get update sudo apt get upgrade git clone https github com goodtft LCD show git chmod R 755 LCD show...

Page 18: ...ystem and then test again If the blank white screen still exists please contact us at service elegoo com for further technical support 2 If your touch screen works fine with our configured system it m...

Page 19: ...sudo LCD35 show...

Page 20: ...ds cd LCD show sudo dpkg i B xinput calibrator_0 7 5 1_armhf deb You will get results as shown in Pic 3 1 Pic 3 1 2 calibrate touch screen and input DISPLAY 0 0 xinput_calibrator Use your stylus pen a...

Page 21: ...press Enter then save and exit Pic 3 4 4 Restart your Raspberry Pi and now your touch screen will respond to each touch correctly FAQ 1 There are errors or no response after I input DISPLAY 0 0 xinpu...

Page 22: ...low and compile sudo apt get update sudo apt get install libfakekey dev libpng dev autoconf libxft dev libtool automake y git clone https github com mwilliams03 matchbox keyboard git cd matchbox keybo...

Page 23: ...board s 100 extended fi Grant the oggle matchbox keyboard sh script executable permissions sudo chmod x usr bin toggle matchbox keyboard sh 5 Add the script in step 4 into Start menu sudo nano usr sha...

Page 24: ...e file Plugin type launchbar Config Button id usr share applications lxde x www browser desktop Button id usr share raspi ui overrides applications pcmanfm desktop Button id usr share raspi ui overrid...

Page 25: ...board please input below commands in the terminal console marked in yellow circle in Pic 3 7 matchbox keyboard s 50 extended matchbox keyboard s 100 extended FAQ When I use virtual keyboard to input a...

Page 26: ...ans to rotate 90 degree in this case screen is horizontal display When value is 180 it means to rotate 180 degree in this case screen is vertical display When value is 270 it means to rotate 270 degre...

Page 27: ...sons Quality issue of screen Drivers are not compatible with system Failure in writing system SD card format error or SD card is defective Drivers are not installed System is out of date or the firmwa...

Page 28: ...the official Raspbian system Solution Please refer Chapter2 2 and install drivers 5 Drivers are not compatible with system 3 5 inch screen works with the configured Raspbian system After installing dr...

Page 29: ...the other systems please contact us for solutions and we ll try our best to help out 2 SD card functionality is not stable and has bad contact SD card takes a very long time to be recognized by comput...

Page 30: ...xtension board to use those GPIO ports with NC symbol taken up by screen Please refer to the chart in Chapter 1 1 Section 4 Raspberry Pi GPIOs used by 3 5 inch touch screen 2 Arcade game systems like...

Page 31: ...stalling drivers the screen is still white Solution NOOBS is short got New Out of Box Software and it s a software not a system just like installation boot software on Windows system So we cannot inst...

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