[mythtv-users] lcdproc not responding

Mike Geisterfer m.geisterfer at sympatico.ca
Fri Sep 30 16:19:43 UTC 2005


Did you try LCDd -h
         - Should tell you which drivers are loaded/compiled

I had a similar problem and it turned out that the hd44780 driver 
didn't get compiled in.
As such had to compile the driver separately.

HTH

         Mike G.


At 2005/09/30 - 11:16 AM, you wrote:

>On Sep 30, 2005, at 12:43 AM, 
><mailto:mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org>mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
>
>>Is LCDd running - what does  "ps -ef | grep -i lcd" show?
>>
>>If not, try running it on the command line. You should get a message
>>
>>on the screen. I  think you need to get at least this far before
>>
>>worrying about myth.
>>
>>
>>The daemon ought to get started by "/etc/init.d/LCDd start"
>
>Hmm.  I get nothing with the ps line.
>
>Further, and I don't remember this before, I'm getting this error 
>when I try to run LCDd
>
>HD44780_init: Unknown connection type: Winamp
>Driver load failed, return code < 0
>Could not load driver hd44780
>There is no output driver
>Critical error: main.c:238, abort
>
>I've tried various caps/lower-case combinations of HD to no avail.
>
>Strangely a "find /usr | grep hd44780" turns up nothing.  Where is 
>the driver kept?
>
>
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