@sdetweil Thanks for that script! I started from fresh Raspian, ran you script, and now this looks like it’s working far better.

I verified that the raspberry pi desktop boots up and looks fine

@sdetweil I’ll go ahead with a fresh latest stable Raspian and use your script. Will take me a bit. Thanks for the help so far!

@sdetweil Ah ok, so would you prefer I install fresh Raspian instead of this: http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/MagicMirrorOS/ ?

(hehe, any chance somebody can bump my account reputation so i can post faster than 120s :) )

@sdetweil Is that intended to be run from a fresh Raspbian install?

@sdetweil FWIW on the B&W issue, I used MMM-EasyBack with a youtubeid, and the youtube video appeared, though only taking part of the screen with white behind the elements as before. The youtube video had color in it, IIRC.

I think I’ve sufficiently messed things up tinkering around. Haha. I’m going to reflash this sd card and try again.

@sdetweil Sorry my ignorance - is there an easy way to boot to just the raspberry pi desktop?

@BKeyport I tried adding MMM-EasyBack, and used this config with the default background image. It seems to cause it to boot sometimes into an all white screen and stay that way, and sometimes it boots into my weird white background with some items in the foreground, but no background. So odd!

Is there a log for errors somewhere?

Hmm, uploading not working. Trying this:

@sdetweil Hmm, interesting. The linux bootup sequence seems to work just fine though. Then the screen goes white with a mouse cursor briefly in the middle. The mouse cursor disappears and then I have a white background with little black blocks containing things like the time and news. Is that still sounding like it could be a cable issue?

I attached a pic to see if that helps with my description. 

I just installed a fresh copy of the ready to go Raspberry Pi image. It booted great on a mini monitor I have and looked right. But, when I hooked it into a 55" monitor, the little modules have a black background around them, but everywhere else is white. Any idea what could be causing this? It looks like it’s white anywhere a module has not explicitly written over pixels.