Raspberry Pi: Difference between revisions

On boot the RPi configures a display with a virtual resolution of 2x2 pixel scaled to full screen. Each pixel has a different color and the hardware scaling interpolates the colors to show a nice color fade. So before you do anything first connect a monitor and see to it that you get some output.

 

[https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki/Accessing-mailboxes access mailboxes]. And then you have to send the GPU some [https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki/Mailbox-property-interface mail]. Or read about the Framebuffer [http://elinux.org/RPi_Framebuffer here],