<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Hi<br>
<br>
2009/1/22 A JM <<a href="mailto:vbtalent@gmail.com">vbtalent@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Sorry for my ignorance as this is my first case with a display. What is the<br>
> difference between an LCD and VFD and what are the benefits? Are they<br>
> synonymous for one another?<br>
<br>
</div>A LCD is made of pixels... and you need a backlight<br>
<br>
A VFD is made of segments and the segments themselves can produce<br>
light. Typically this is the kind of display you will find in<br>
microwave or VCR<br>
<br>
A VFD is usually much easier to read than a LCD, but you are limited<br>
in what you can display to whatever has been pre-set..<br>
<br>
Jean-Yves<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
><br>
> Are you applying that patch to LCDproc 0.4.5 for iMON<br>
> (<a href="http://venky.ws/projects/imon/#standalone" target="_blank">http://venky.ws/projects/imon/#standalone</a>)?<br>
<br>
</div>If you use Ubuntu, I've made patches that you can directly apply to<br>
the LIRC code...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
><br>
> "To get lirc to automatically detect the display as an LCD instead of a VFD,<br>
> you need to use lirc from CVS."<br>
><br>
> Also, a bit of enlightening for me would help... is this compiled before<br>
> Myth along with or seperate of Myth?<br>
<br>
</div>The LCD in those cases is rather recentm and reports pretty much the<br>
same kind of property on the USB port. So old version of LIRC sees it<br>
as the old VFD screen rather than the newer LCD.<br>
<br>
Once you update LIRC or patch the existing one, it recognises the<br>
screen properly.<br>
<br>
Hope this help<br>
<font color="#888888">Jean-Yves<br>
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"If you use Ubuntu, I've made patches that you can directly apply to<br>
the LIRC code..."<br>
<br>
I do use Ubuntu, are your patches widely available or only for personal use?<br>
<br>
I'm assuming your patches are to address the same issues as what David was running into? great information David.<br>
<br>
"To get lirc to automatically detect the display as an LCD instead of a<br>
VFD, you need to use lirc from CVS. Specifically, you need revision<br>
1.32 or later of lirc_imon.c. If you don't want to use all unreleased<br>
lirc, just drop that one file into lirc-0.8.4a. I'm actually using it<br>
with lirc-0.8.3." <br></div></div>