So I bought a driver board from AliExpress so that I could plug a Raspberry Pi into an old laptop screen I had kicking around.
I’ve worked everything up, and plugged the display into my laptop. It looks like this, which clearly isn’t right:
Am I doing something stupid?
Any ideas what?
Well apart from buying cheap crap from China, of course…
Anyway, it seems like the board is from some kind of vaguely smart TV, and it has a function to play media off a USB stick - which looks like this:
So without an HDMI input, the screen still looks a bit wrong.
So I think that maybe the driver board isn’t actually compatible with my LCD screen, or maybe there’s a fault with the LCD?
Fixed it!
While idly browsing other options on AliExpress I found this in the description of another board
So, I followed the instructions, set the colour depth to 6 bits, and get this:
Can I go to bed now?!?
Excellent 
that looks like a nice board, I have a spare lcd at home, maybe I can reuse it 
What’s the chip driving it?
I don’t know! I found it by searching AliExpress for the model number of my LCD panel.
