Month: August 2014

  • Raspberry Pi 1080p Resolution Fix

    I recently wrote up my new raspberry pi workstation with a nice new ViewSonic VA2246M but by default the Pi would only output 1600×1200. The configuration for the HDMI lives in the config.txt file in /boot. I had to work through a few different hdmi_group and hdmi_mode settings to find the right combination. I found…

  • Raspberry Pi – failed to open vchiq instance [Solved]

    I’ve been working on my timelapse camera setup with my raspberry pi and when trying to run my python script I got the following error. This is a permissions error because I had created a new user that wasn’t in the video group. All you have to do is make sure that your new user…