WaveShare 7.9 DSI

[speakerguy]

I have felt like I have been searching for years for an answer although it only has been weeks, so I am here gracefully asking for help.   I am using a raspberry PI 3B+ with A Dac 2 Pro (currently not installed) and a Waveshare 7.9" DSI interface.  I was able to to get it running on volumio but after a few months decided I really did not like the software. Anyways I can get the drivers to install from git hub, after installing git.  They don't like to be installed locally for some reason.  The screen does turn on after the install, and I can view Terminal and the main login, but the local UI does not load,  on both the HDMI and the DSI screen.  I did notice during the installation of the drives, terminal did give me one line that read "It already exists and does not need to be added."  I don't believe this is an error, but it could be.  I am not very familiar with this distro of Linux.  I have also noticed that it seems to break the control the web ui had over the config.exe file.

After the reboot I get, "MPD ERROR JSON.parse:unexpected end of data at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data."

If anyone has had experience with DSI screens, I would gratefully appreciate any help getting it running.  As I really don't want to have to purchase the HDMI version unless I really have to.

Thank you again in advance.