[mythtv-users] Re: Serial VFD integration

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 10/8/05, Ben Curtis <mythtv at nosolutions.com> wrote:
>
>
> Maybe I'm just daft, but I don't see it in mythsetup or the frontend
> setup? I didn't even see the word LCD mentioned in the mythtv.org<http://mythtv.org>
> documentation. Think you can point it out to me? Thanks.


It's in the frontend, in the Appearance setup section.

> Sounds to me like you haven't loaded the correct driver for lcdproc. You
> > say it works by sending stuff to /dev/ttyS0 but the HD44780 driver is
> for
> > the parallel port. Time to RTFM I think...
> >
> > Test by running up LCDd and then lcdproc which should show time-of-day,
> > CPU load and similar stuff.
> >
>
> My VFD is a Parallel with a serial controller on top of it.
> Unfortunately, it's not listed under any of the drivers for LCD proc,
> which is why I'm winging it.
>
> I think you may be right on the driver part, but as for the RTFM comment,
> the HD44780 driver also supports the Pic-an-LCD interface which is very
> similar to my setup, and distributed by the same people who do my VFD. If
> you RTFM, you learn that you use the "Device=" line to set the driver to a
> serial port, as I stated in my previous post.


What model is your VFD? Your questions might get answered correctly the
first time if you bothered to mention that datum. My VFD uses the MtxOrb
driver, but my VFD is a Matrix Orbital.

Carl Fongheiser.
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