[Lcdproc] Why aren't the drivers being made?

Guillaume Filion gfk@logidac.com
Tue May 2 20:24:01 2006


Jason Miller a écrit :
> I tried 0.50, and got it to work, but the backlight doesn't work for 
> Matrix Orbital 20x4 LCD.  I was hoping it would work with 0.4.

I'm not sure who's the maintainer for the Matrix Orbital driver, but 
hopefully he's reading the list and will correct this.

> It now ran longer and seemed to do more.  There are a bunch of *.o files 
> in /drivers.  I have no idea what the actual 'drivers' are though.

Hey, I don't even know what some of the drivers are... :-)

This might give you a hint:
http://lcdproc.org/docs.php3

> The LCDd.conf for 0.4 says nothing about where to look for the 
> drivers.   I have absolutetly no idea where anything goes and am running 
> around in circles!

0.4 has all the drivers statically linked in the executable.

Best,
GFK's
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