Black screen on Surface RT running Raspbian OS (for ARM).

[JS999]

Hi.

I recently respun a Microsoft Surface RT and installed Raspbian on it. The Surface RT runs Linux just fine, so I went and installed MM2 on it, however when I start it (npm start), I get a black screen with the mouse/cursor on it. I’ve waited a long time, but the screen stays black, however something is running because if I hit Q, MM2 quits gracefully.

I’ve tried Googling for answer, and the closest I found was when someone got a black screen at startup (they were installing on a RPW, I believe), and they just had to wait a while for various packages and such to be downloaded. I waited and waited (like an hour), but when I came back, I still saw the black screen.

I also went into the config file and disabled (commented out) all the modules except one, and the system still gave me the black screen. I also commented out that last one and uncommented a different one (so I would have at least one module), but alas, still I get the black screen.

Also, I didn’t see any obvious things in the logs that were displayed to the screen.

Any idea what might be going on or how I should go about debugging it?

Thank you for your time.

[sdetweil]

@JS999 how did you install MagicMirror ?

can you look at the messages output from the npm start command

typically the black screen means some missing fonts

[JS999]

@sdetweil - Interesting… Sure, I’ll copy and paste the output (from the Surface RT to this computer so I can paste it).

I’ll be back… :-)

[sdetweil]

@JS999 if you have ssh enabled you can do it over the ssh session