# Using an ili9341 display

**URL:** <https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/using-an-ili9341-display/4872>\
**Category:** Hardware\
**Created:** [October 30, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/using-an-ili9341-display/4872 "2020-10-30T22:30:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sleepy](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/sleepy/32/3716_2.png) [@sleepy](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/sleepy)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/using-an-ili9341-display/4872/6 "2020-11-01T23:54:40Z")

</div>

The link you sent is not exactly suitable for Zynthian (I’ve made the same mistake when I was configuring my screen). Try keeping the same connection as described in your link, but reconnect BL from pin 12 to pin 32(gpio-12). Then you can try compiling the dtoverlay (something like a driver) from the topic @le51 referenced. First grab the [source file](https://discourse.zynthian.org/uploads/short-url/yd89BR5QgaIDfTTxzJ8tSl32GoG.dts). ssh into your pi, execute command `nano mytft.dts` this will open text editor, paste the contents of the file you grabbed and press `ctrl + O` (save) and then `ctrl + X` (exit). Now you can compile your dtoverlay using following command

```
sudo dtc -@ -I dts -O dtb -o /boot/overlays/mytft.dtbo mytft.dts

```

Then go to webconf, and set up the screen as shown in [this post](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/spi-display-stops-working-after-selecting-non-dummy-dac/4038/24).

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/using-an-ili9341-display/4872)._