[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv supoprt for lcdproc/other lcds

[Darius Hardy]

Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 10:31 AM +0100 10/21/05, Shaun Lowry wrote:
> 
>>  > Maybe I will hijack this thread, can we make lcdproc
>>
>>>  or Myth use the 2 line display as 1 big line?
>>
>>
>> That would be perfect!  Anyone know what would be involved in doing this?
> 
> 
> I don't think there's any way to do this from the LCDproc side without 
> code modifications. You might have better luck suggesting it to the Myth 
> devs, since LCD output is being worked on very actively right now. The 
> new Myth LCD daemon (in SVN) is very slick!
> 

It'd have to be done via an LCDproc driver. Most of the displays are 
character-based and can only handle a few custom characters, the most 
popular ones using the HD44780 chip which doesn't have a very good 
larger font (it uses the second line to show the descenders of g,q & p 
properly). If you've got a display that can handle double-size 
characters then you just need the LCDproc driver to set it that way. 
There's no native way for an LCDproc server to that (from what I remember.)

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