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Using the Display

FIBER only — FIBER Lite has no display (see What's Different).

This guide covers putting your own content on FIBER's backlit LCD.

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Content pending. The display is not a Linux framebuffer — there is no /dev/fb* device and no DRM panel for it. It is wired to SPI6 (/dev/spidev6.0, chip select on GPIO18) and driven from user space by the FIBER application (fiber_app, started by fiber.service), which holds that device open for as long as it runs.

That means a guide cannot simply tell you to write to /dev/spidev6.0: doing so while the application is running produces a corrupted screen at best, and the display carries the device's alarm state, so taking it over is not a cosmetic decision. This page needs the supported way to put content on the screen through the FIBER application before the procedure can be written.