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Stuck at Loading PIL font message #141
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Testing with a raspberry pi 4b. I followed the instructions to "Install with pip to virtualenv."
I get stuck at this message and the screen does not fade to black.
$ time papertty_venv/bin/papertty --driver EPD4in2 scrub
Loading PIL font /home/cam/papertty_venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/papertty/resources/tom-thumb.pil. Font size is ignored.
^C
Aborted!
real 13m0.912s
user 0m1.659s
sys 0m0.552sAny advice?
The display is brand new and perhaps the hardware has changed since the EPD4in2 driver was written? I will repeat this test with some other displays to see if this display is the issue.
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smokedclam commentedon Jun 24, 2025
I just tried with a brand new 2.13" Touch e-Paper HAT. The screen definitely darkened but didn't seem to fade back to white. Though should I expect to see more output messages?
smokedclam commentedon Jun 24, 2025
I just tried with a third display. The display did not seem to change color in any noticeable way.
nicola-mazzoni commentedon Sep 6, 2025
Hi @smokedclam I'm having the same issue. Were you able to solve it? But I have a 5.79-inch screen that isn't officially supported. I'd rather not buy another display with compatible drivers and run into the same problem. This is for a project and I absolutely need to use the terminal on an e-paper screen. I don't think the solution is to develop a kernel framebuffer module....