Troubleshooting • zero w2 xorg w/gpio screen?

trying a desktop distro of the retroflag case 2w,

I used the patch GPiCase2Wpatch_retropie+zero2.zip which I know is for retropi but it seems to be general purpose and worked by dropping config.txt on boot and the two overlay files in the overlays folder (pwm audio and dpi24) system booting normally as expected with console output to the screen except xorg wouldn't' start

startx fails because I assume its trying to use the normal hdmi? I did follow a basic guide which said to

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbdev.conf

with
which still failed to start due to no screens? so searching a little I came up with this config
which also does not work, any suggestions because I am stummped at this point, though I had a lot of fun just playing around with the lynx console on it so far but it would be nice toget a regular desktop running if anyone has any ideas?

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by iamfox — Thu Jan 22, 2026 4:02 pm — Replies 4 — Views 57

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