[mythtv-users] confusion re lirc_imon and lcdproc [solved]

[Vincent McIntyre]

On 2/23/11, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:23 AM, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
>
> ...

>> So now I'm confused. Is my case one of the corner cases Jarod goes on
>> to talk about?
>
> No. Your dmesg output clearly shows the imon driver binding just fine,
> auto-configuring your display as an LCD and everything. (All 0xffdc
> devices should be handled by the imon driver now, its even older stuff
> that lirc_imon still drives).
>

Indeed it does, now that I look at it closely.

>> I can't see any sign of lirc_imon in the media_tree.git, or I would
>> have tried to build
>> & install it.
>
> Its under drivers/staging/lirc/, but its not going to help any, since it
> doesn't do a thing for your device.
>
> As far as kernel driver goes, you should be just fine, its all just a
> matter of configuring LCDd correctly (which is of course a bit of a mess
> depending on what version of lcdproc you have).
>

I have the lcdproc-0.5.3 that ubuntu provide with the lucid release.

I was able to get it working with just this change to LCDd.conf
  - driver=curses
  + driver=imonlcd
and restarting LCDd. Thanks for your help in understanding this.

There's a small buglet it seems with the initial screen that lcdproc
cycles back to
when nothing else is sending output - it displays a bright block on
the left side of the
screen that obscures some of the text. This goes away when the display switches
to the time & date or the output sent to it by mythlcdserver. I'll
report that to launchpad,
if it's not something people have seen before.


Kind regards
Vince