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First, Venus OS is not Raspberry Pi OS!

I don't have a Waveshare 4" touchscreen montor, but I had simular problems with a simular touchscreen from AliExpress: http://www.lcdwiki.com/4inch_HDMI_Display-C

The product parameters are almost the same. You can't use the install scripts because they are specific for Raspberry Pi, but reading the script MPI4008-show you can see what is needed in config.txt

[jaap@vrede ~]$ ssh root@192.168.178.103
root@192.168.178.103's password:
Last login: Sat Jul 2 16:18:22 2022 from 192.168.178.17
root@raspberrypi4:~# ls
LCD-show         LCD-show.tar.gz
root@raspberrypi4:~# cd /u-boot/
root@raspberrypi4:/u-boot# cat config.txt
enable_uart=1
kernel=u-boot.bin

[all]
device_tree=bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_force_edid_audio=1
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
dtparam=spi=on
display_rotate=3
config_hdmi_boost=7
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=1
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_drive=2
hdmi_cvt 480 800 60 6 0 0 0
dtoverlay=ads7846,cs=1,penirq=25,penirq_pull=2,speed=50000,keep_vref_on=0,swapxy=0,pmax=255,xohms=150,xmin=200,xmax=3900,ymin=200,ymax=3900
root@raspberrypi4:/u-boot#

This works for me (almost). Touching the label 'Pages' does not work!

I'll open a question on this.

@PaulM

Better here in modifications

@kevgermany

I don't understand the move to modifications. Since the problem is related to the way venus os works on a Raspberry Pi. The RPi's don't have a BIOS, so coupling basic hardware such as a screen has to be done in the so called 'config.txt'.

I suggest reading:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/config_txt.html

Please have patience with me. I'm new here :-)

Many thanks, that works perfectly :-) I'm not using the touchscreen at present.

My comment re Raspios - the waveshare display works, as supplied, with Debian Buster based OS but not with Debian Bullseye. I guess that's the difference between Venus OS and Venus OS Large ?

Regards

PaulM

Considering buying this display. Does the backlight dimming/off and screen off features work?