[Lcdproc] Problems with Pyramid LCD

Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de
Thu Aug 10 20:42:01 2006


* tlovelac@midsouth.rr.com <tlovelac@midsouth.rr.com> [060810 04:59]:
> Thanks for the reply. I am guessing my problem is that I am not running 
> a recent enough kernel. The software I am using is still in the 2.4 
> train and may be a little while before they get to the 2.6 code. Is 
> there no way to use this LCD with that?

honestly I never tried. Check if 2.4 has ftdi_sio.c and whether you can 
basically apply this patch

http://www.pyramid.de/d/downloads/patch-4-linux-2.6.13-14.txt

... plugging the LCD into a USB port should load the ftdi_sio.ko driver 
and create a ttyUSB0 for you. If it does, this is probably going to
work.

HTH

Stefan

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