Hi there,
I was feeling very suave with my first attempts to use a Pi5 for weeks until today where trying to get more out of my SPI screen I completely broke everything so the point of being fairly depressed about it. As I feel like I won't ever be able to get back to where I way.
I was running what (I thought) was the most recent Bookworm on my pi5, but it was whatever default OS was installed to the SD card that I bought preloaded with Pi OS from my retailer. (canadian, Pi-Shop, if that helps).
I had spent weeks learning everything, and got my login to work as follows: It removed all the code screens, I had a custom Splash.png going, auto logged into my LDXE desktop wherein I had customized everything.
Then while trying to speed up my GPIO screen I accidentally did two things: I added dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d and I made the bigger mistake of doing a bunch of apt get upgrade / apt get dist-upgrade etc thinking that maybe I didn't have the most recent drivers.
I then broke my entire Pi without backing anything up, of course.
Now when I log in, all the code and processes are back, my splash screen won't show, and it goes to a Debian 12 login screen. Of which when I logged in using my admin info would just go to black screens no matter what. I figured a way to finally get into a command line and sudo nano'd my way back into the config file and removed the new DTOverlay.
Once I did this, the same issues persisted but at least now I can log into my desktop. I log in using the 'Raspberry Pi Desktop on X' option, but now even when I do that the desktop has new icons I don't want. Alongside my regular Wifi Signal and Sound bar, is a brand new second Wifi icon which I don't want and now some suuuper annoying peripherals keyboard icon also. I am sure I can remove those with some effort but just trying to share in case something like that helps someone know "oh he swaped to XYZ"
I've tried everything so far to fix this. I have tried every single option in raspi-config, I have tried every single change I could try to make for auto-logins, I have tried dozens of google fixes to get auto-login working again, let alone removing all the code and re-adding my splash.png...
None of it works anymore. This project is suppose to run keyboard-less and having a login stop my autostart processes has really crippled me, and I am running anxiety at the fact that I can't even just flash my SD and start over again because I don't know the specific archaic Pi OS that the seller gave me that magically ran everything I needed.
I'm - dramatically I admit - in shambles after weeks of work, and dozens of hours designing and 3d printing a housing for this TV that now all that work was for nothing and I genuinely can't get this thing to do even the simplest task anymore. All because I couldn't just leave it alone.
Any help would be nice, should I just flash my SD to the newest Pi OS and then try to re-learn how to do the things I did? They don't seem to work on the newest OS, and I am too new at coding to be able to do this without documentation. I was relying on lots of old videos which don't seem to work anymore clearly with the current OS.
The closest I've come to an answer is someone mentioning that the new OS doesn't run off LDXE-Pi anymore and I remember early in my project running a bunch of commands editing a config file having to do with LDXE-Pi to get stuff working, but now it's so far from memory I can't even check. But based off all my raspi-config settings refusing to remove code, etc. I am disheartened that normal tutorials and work won't even affect my stuff because my mistakes have made my OS pretty much unnegotiable.
Any help would be great, I am honestly a bit down feeling like almost 100 hours and hundreds of dollars are all down the drain because of myself and my brash actions.
Appreciate you all, thanks.
I was feeling very suave with my first attempts to use a Pi5 for weeks until today where trying to get more out of my SPI screen I completely broke everything so the point of being fairly depressed about it. As I feel like I won't ever be able to get back to where I way.
I was running what (I thought) was the most recent Bookworm on my pi5, but it was whatever default OS was installed to the SD card that I bought preloaded with Pi OS from my retailer. (canadian, Pi-Shop, if that helps).
I had spent weeks learning everything, and got my login to work as follows: It removed all the code screens, I had a custom Splash.png going, auto logged into my LDXE desktop wherein I had customized everything.
Then while trying to speed up my GPIO screen I accidentally did two things: I added dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d and I made the bigger mistake of doing a bunch of apt get upgrade / apt get dist-upgrade etc thinking that maybe I didn't have the most recent drivers.
I then broke my entire Pi without backing anything up, of course.
Now when I log in, all the code and processes are back, my splash screen won't show, and it goes to a Debian 12 login screen. Of which when I logged in using my admin info would just go to black screens no matter what. I figured a way to finally get into a command line and sudo nano'd my way back into the config file and removed the new DTOverlay.
Once I did this, the same issues persisted but at least now I can log into my desktop. I log in using the 'Raspberry Pi Desktop on X' option, but now even when I do that the desktop has new icons I don't want. Alongside my regular Wifi Signal and Sound bar, is a brand new second Wifi icon which I don't want and now some suuuper annoying peripherals keyboard icon also. I am sure I can remove those with some effort but just trying to share in case something like that helps someone know "oh he swaped to XYZ"
I've tried everything so far to fix this. I have tried every single option in raspi-config, I have tried every single change I could try to make for auto-logins, I have tried dozens of google fixes to get auto-login working again, let alone removing all the code and re-adding my splash.png...
None of it works anymore. This project is suppose to run keyboard-less and having a login stop my autostart processes has really crippled me, and I am running anxiety at the fact that I can't even just flash my SD and start over again because I don't know the specific archaic Pi OS that the seller gave me that magically ran everything I needed.
I'm - dramatically I admit - in shambles after weeks of work, and dozens of hours designing and 3d printing a housing for this TV that now all that work was for nothing and I genuinely can't get this thing to do even the simplest task anymore. All because I couldn't just leave it alone.
Any help would be nice, should I just flash my SD to the newest Pi OS and then try to re-learn how to do the things I did? They don't seem to work on the newest OS, and I am too new at coding to be able to do this without documentation. I was relying on lots of old videos which don't seem to work anymore clearly with the current OS.
The closest I've come to an answer is someone mentioning that the new OS doesn't run off LDXE-Pi anymore and I remember early in my project running a bunch of commands editing a config file having to do with LDXE-Pi to get stuff working, but now it's so far from memory I can't even check. But based off all my raspi-config settings refusing to remove code, etc. I am disheartened that normal tutorials and work won't even affect my stuff because my mistakes have made my OS pretty much unnegotiable.
Any help would be great, I am honestly a bit down feeling like almost 100 hours and hundreds of dollars are all down the drain because of myself and my brash actions.
Appreciate you all, thanks.
Statistics: Posted by PugX — Tue Nov 19, 2024 11:05 am