Official Display • Raspberry Pi 5 + Touch Display 2: No output on OS Lite

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB ram)
Display: Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 (7 inches)
OS: Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)
Add-on: Sense Hat

Hi guys. I am experiencing a blank screen issue on the Raspberry Pi OS Lite. While the display backlight is on, no CLI / text output is visible. Interestingly, the display worked perfectly when I tried it on the first time. Also, whenever I use a SD card with the Raspberry Pi OS Full ( the one with Desktop Environment) everything works fine as well.
The SD card with Raspberry Pi OS Lite is working fine (i checked by writing other versions of the OS on it)

Timeline:
On the very first boot with OS Lite, the display worked fine, though it was in portrait (vertical) orientation.
Then, I attempted to rotate the screen by modifying some files in /boot/firmware/ (which didn't seemed to work since, after a reboot, the display stopped showing any information)
So I performed a clean re-flash (or rewrite; idk how the right term) of the SD card using Raspberry Pi Imager multiple times. Despite these fresh installs, the display remainend blank (backlight only)

Does anyone now what's happening?

Thanks in advance .

Statistics: Posted by natabsa — Sun Feb 08, 2026 8:38 pm — Replies 0 — Views 13

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