Hey, I think I have had the same setup using the adafruit pi tft spi 240x240 1.3" st7789 display. Mine says that it should be able to work, are you using the same exact display? I am using Ubuntu 20.04. THIS IS THE INSTRUCTION SET TO GET THE RASPI TO WORK WITH THE DISPLAY:
cd ~
sudo pip3 install --upgrade adafruit-python-shell click
sudo apt-get install -y git
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts.git
cd Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts
sudo python3 adafruit-pitft.py --display=st7789_240x240 --rotation=0 --install-type=console
Your work is VERY appreciated along with everyone else working on this as it really helps open up portable use implementations of these SBC’s. Please help me with either a simple “yep” or NOPE to get started if you read this.