[mythtv-users] LCD / VFD problems

[Dan Morphis]

mythml at wolke7.net wrote:

> I have a SilverStone case with a built in VFD display. The driver is
>  supposed to be compatible to the HD44780 and I installed LCDd and 
> recompiled MythTV without any problems. It basicly works fine and 
> MythTV messages look quite nice (thanks to the developers!). But 
> there are some "strange" effects:
> 
> 1) When watching live TV there is something like a large "L" in the 
> upper left corner. Everything else looks fine. Looking closer the "L"
>  actually is a vertical line and an underscore. The display has a 
> "hardware-underscore", not dots but really a line below the 7x5 dots.
> 

Sounds to me like a driver issue.  As it works fine on my display.

> 
> 
> 2) When listening to music the first (scrolling) line looks ok. But 
> in the second line the progress indicator looks weird: a block that 
> is not ccomplete (evolving from left to right) shows the underscore 
> decribed above, looks fine otherwise. But when the block ought to be 
> full it does not show a full block but a "y" with dots above (like an
>  umlaut-y, if such thing exists).

Sounds to me like a driver issue.  As it works fine on my display.

> 
> 3) Real umlauts are not shown correctly in T nor music playback. The 
> letters exist in the driver font but probabely at the wrong codes.
> 

Take a look at the code to be sure its putting the right data out to the 
display.

-dan