After two days of trying to follow obsolete and/or incomplete and/or ambiguous instructions on this and other forums, I managed to get the BB VIEW cape going with a 4.3" LCD. And by going, I mean that after the touch calibration, which completes uneventfully, I get a black screen with a lonely cursor. The cursor tracks smoothly and precisely, I am not getting poor touchscreen tracking that some have reported.
If I hit Crtl+Alt+Fx (0 < x < 7), I get a terminal with a login prompt, if I then hit Ctrl+Alt+F7, I recover the empty screen with a cursor.
Linux version is Wheezy, Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone79 #1 SMP Tue Oct 13 20:44:55 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux, hardware of BeagleBone Black is Rev. C.
So,
(a) have I done something wrong? or
(b) is this the expected behavior, the 4.3" screen is deemed by (parts of) Linux to be insufficient to display desktop constituents other than the cursor?
Many thanks!
Vladimir
