HackBerry Pi

HackBerry Pi

The HackBerry Pi is a portable Raspberry Pi computer, with a BlackBerry keyboard and a square Hyperpixel LCD. Overall is a great pocket pc, but it has some quirks, specially with the screen. In this page i will gather information, about it. For more information, visit the site of the project at github.

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Tested OS

Below you will find info about OSes that work with Hackberry Pi and what you have to do, for them to work properly.

Batocera

Works just fine. Use the Raspberry Pi OS way to make it work.

Arch

As reported in Discord works fine. Copy the driver into the drivers folder and add these lines into the config.txt file

initramfs initramfs-linux.img followkernel

[all]
dtoverlay=hyperpixel4
enable_dpi_lcd=1
dpi_group=2
dpi_mode=87
dpi_output_format=0x5f026
dpi_timings=720 0 20 20 40 720 0 15 15 15 0 0 0 60 0 36720000 4

Retropie

Works just fine. Use this way to make it work.

Software

Angryoxide

Angryoxide needs a big terminal size to work. Follow the tutorial to make it work in a Hackberry.