Touchscreen with 9.3 on a Raspberry Pi 4

[jross_mt]

Greetings!

I want to use a touchscreen monitor with my Raspberry Pi4 running 9.3. This is the type of screen where the pi just plugs into the screen with a ribbon cable from the display port to the monitor.

Search on Amazon for this: FREENOVE 7 Inch Touchscreen Monitor

The description says “Compatible with Raspberry Pi OS (multi-touch available) / Ubuntu (single touch only).”

I’d be fine with single touch–is there a package available for Rocky that will enable this?

I’ve built a fair amount of software with mock already so if there’s a package on fedora or ? that provides this please let me know.

Thanks!

Jeff Ross

[codedude]

Hi Jeff,

The images found here should work fine as those images use the Rpi Foundation kernel. Have you tried one of those images or ?
Bryan

[jross_mt]

I don’t have the touchscreen yet. I see this:

jross@rpi4:~$ uname -a
Linux rpi4 6.1.31-v8.1.el9.altarch #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 10 22:16:20 UTC 2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

So perhaps the touchscreen will just work when it gets here. Given my lack of success getting a RealTimeClock module to work on the RPi4 I guess maybe I was just overly worried.

I’d much rather stick with Rocky than fall back to raspian to get the touchscreen to work.

Thanks for the rapid reply!

Jeff

[codedude]

certainly let us know how your adventure goes.

Also, you’re welcome to join us over on mattermost

-Bryan

[jross_mt]

Will do and thanks for the link to mattermost–I didn’t know it existed!

Jeff