5 inch Raspberry Pi LCD not filling entire screen (SOLVED)

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5 inch Raspberry Pi LCD not filling entire screen (SOLVED)

Post by Atom » Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:48 am

I purchased a 5 inch screen from Amazon and the video only fills a portion of the screen (about 1 inch of the screen doesn't have anything but white vertical bars displaying on the right side). I am using a freshly imaged Sd card with Retropie 4.2.9

Screen:
https://www.amazon.com/800x480-Touch-Sc ... +pi+screen
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Re: 5 inch Raspberry Pi LCD not filling entire scren

Post by ICMF » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:31 pm

You need to append the config file. Easiest way to do it is to plug the microSD into a PC, find config.txt on the card and open it in notepad, then copy and paste the appropriate code at the end. Or do the Mac equivalent thereof

I used this on my 5" waveshare screen:

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max_usb_current=1
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_cvt 800 480 60 6 0 0 0
hdmi_drive=1
Your best bet would be to look it up on the manufacturer's website, but if you can't find anything, the code above *should* work, and can simply be deleted from the config file if it does something unexpected.

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Re: 5 inch Raspberry Pi LCD not filling entire scren

Post by Atom » Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:40 am

Thanks! It works perfectly now.

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