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RPi5 Fails to run xstart without this modification

Open arretx opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

After following this guide to a tee, I attempted a reboot and was met with a failure to start X.org...the error looked like this:

Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs        for all framebuffer devices

I dug through some forums and found that the following solution worked.

Login to the Pi and create a file called 99-vc4.conf in the path /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Add this to the file:

Section "OutputClass"
  Identifier "vc4"
  MatchDriver "vc4"
  Driver "modesetting"
  Option "PrimaryGPU" "true"
EndSection

Reboot. Home Assistant will fire right up. I also noticed that you'll need to enable the cursor the first time in order to set the username and password of the login for the Home Assistant UI.

arretx avatar Mar 10 '24 00:03 arretx