Using Raspberry Pi official 7 inch display with DietPi

[strangeways]

I’m using the DietPi image on Rock Pi 4b and booting into chromium in kiosk mode. My official Raspberry Pi 7 inch touchscreen (800x480) is connected to 5V + GND and DSI MIPI with the ribbon cable. My kiosk appears when I have an HDMI monitor connected, however, there’s no activity, no backlight, nothing, when I'm trying to use the touchscreen the touchscreen. Unlike the Raspberry Pi 4 image, there's no configurable options for the display within dietpi-config on the Rock Pi 4b image, so I need to know exactly how I should configure DietPi to detect the display.

I’ve installed the rockpi4-dtbo package and created /boot/hw_intfc.conf with the line intfc:dtoverlay=raspberrypi-7-inch-lcd uncommented. I’ve tried adding overlays=raspberrypi-7-inch-lcd to /boot/armbianEnv.txt but none of these attempts have worked so far. Thanks in advance.

[MichaIng]

Hmm, does this "raspberrypi-7-inch-lcd.dtbo" overlay exist in /boot/dtb/... ?

Edit: It does not. Check /boot/dtb/rockchip/overlay/. The readme gives some more details:

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This document describes overlays provided in the kernel packages
For generic Armbian overlays documentation please see
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Allwinner_overlays/

### Platform:

rockchip (Rockchip)

### Provided overlays:

- i2c7, i2c8, pcie-gen2, spi-spidev, uart4, w1-gpio

### Overlay details:

### i2c7

Activates TWI/I2C bus 7

I2C7 pins (SCL, SDA): GPIO2-B0, GPIO2-A7 GPIO1-C5, GPIO1-C4

### i2c8

Activates TWI/I2C bus 8

I2C8 pins (SCL, SDA): GPIO1-C5, GPIO1-C4

### pcie-gen2

Enables PCIe Gen2 link speed on RK3399.
WARNING! Not officially supported by Rockchip!!!

### spi-jedec-nor

Activates MTD support for JEDEC compatible SPI NOR flash chips on SPI bus
supported by the kernel SPI NOR driver

SPI 0 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO3_A5, GPIO3_A4, GPIO3_A6, GPIO3_A7
SPI 1 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO1_A7, GPIO1_B0, GPIO1_B1, GPIO1_B2
SPI 2 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO1_C0, GPIO1_B7, GPIO1_C1, GPIO1_C2
SPI 3 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO2_B2, GPIO2_B1, GPIO2_B3, GPIO2_B4

Parameters:

param_spinor_spi_bus (int)
	SPI bus to activate SPI NOR flash support on
	Required
	Supported values: 0, 1, 2

param_spinor_max_freq (int)
	Maximum SPI frequency
	Optional
	Default: 1000000
	Range: 3000 - 100000000

### spi-spidev

Activates SPIdev device node (/dev/spidevX.Y) for userspace SPI access,
where X is the bus number and Y is the CS number

SPI 0 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO3_A5, GPIO3_A4, GPIO3_A6, GPIO3_A7
SPI 1 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO1_A7, GPIO1_B0, GPIO1_B1, GPIO1_B2
SPI 2 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO1_C0, GPIO1_B7, GPIO1_C1, GPIO1_C2
SPI 3 pins (MOSI, MISO, SCK, CS): GPIO2_B2, GPIO2_B1, GPIO2_B3, GPIO2_B4

Parameters:

param_spidev_spi_bus (int)
	SPI bus to activate SPIdev support on
	Required
	Supported values: 0, 1

param_spidev_spi_cs (int)
	SPI chip select number
	Optional
	Default: 0
	Supported values: 0, 1
	Using chip select 1 requires using "spi-add-cs1" overlay

param_spidev_max_freq (int)
	Maximum SPIdev frequency
	Optional
	Default: 1000000
	Range: 3000 - 100000000

### uart4

Activates UART4

UART4 pins (RX, TX): GPIO1_A7, GPIO1_B0

Notice: UART4 cannot be activated together with SPI1 - they share the sam pins.
Enabling this overlay disables SPI1.

### w1-gpio

Activates 1-Wire GPIO master
Requires an external pull-up resistor on the data pin
or enabling the internal pull-up

Parameters:

param_w1_pin (pin)
	Data pin for 1-Wire master
	Optional
	Default: PD14

I guess its an i2c touchscreen? Then you would need to add the i2c7 or i2c8 overlay, depending on which pins the touchscreen is added to. But to be true I have not much idea if there are other drivers required that are present on RPi but not on ROCK Pi 4 by default.