Glad my comments have been useful @jposada202020 :)

It looks like before we tackle the main thread of this 'enhancement' there's a bug to sort first -- the backtrace you see

I changed this to True and using an Adafruit 0.91" OLED display I got

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "t3.py", line 14, in <module>
  File "/lib/adafruit_ssd1306.py", line 238, in __init__
  File "/lib/adafruit_ssd1306.py", line 80, in __init__
  File "/lib/adafruit_ssd1306.py", line 140, in init_display
  File "/lib/adafruit_ssd1306.py", line 195, in show
  File "/lib/adafruit_ssd1306.py", line 259, in write_framebuf
RuntimeError: Function requires lock

I do not expect this is related to the various parameters and logic needed for specific displays, but that the i2c_device is not being used cleanly -- potentially a bug in the code recently added:

@jposada202020, the RuntimeError: Function requires lock error looks unrelated to the main thread here. I did not see this error and am running this exact code route successfully (i.e. down to the same i2c version of write_framebuf). It is likely a difference in resilience of supporting libraries in the environment.

A good possibility here is that the lock of the i2c_device cannot be obtained, since it has not been released from a previous use. The new branch below attempts to fix this -- please repeat the above with this branch instead:
adamcandy/Adafruit_CircuitPython_SSD1306/tree/fix-locking-error

I have made a simple change that I think has a good chance of fixing this. I do not have the problem here or backtrace -- so as a first step it would be helpful if you could repeat your testing in #40 (comment) but with the new branch. Please let us know if this at least removes the backtrace.

Then we'll be in a good place to experiment with parameters for page addressing with the 0.91" display -- which could give us a general solution for all.

Add colstart kwarg #40

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