[Lcdproc] LCDd not loading properly

[brian]

   Anybody??  I get the same result, running the latest stable release 
or with SVN (currently installed: lcdproc-CVS-current-20070317).



brian wrote:
> 
> Hi all...
> 
>    I recently added an LCD display to my MythTV system, but I cannot 
> get  LCDd to automatically load during boot-up (or, for that matter, to 
> load properly when invoked from the command line).
> 
>    The problem occurs when I start LCDd (either by `service LCDd 
> start`,  or if I type `/usr/local/sbin/LCDd -c 
> /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf`).  The system prompt doesn't return after LCDd 
> server starts up.  If it Ctrl-C, I am returned to the system prompt and 
> the system (including LCDd!) perform normally.  Clients can connect to 
> and use the LCDd server normally.  Because of this behavior, if I enable 
> automatically loading LCDd with chkconfig, the boot-up process stops at 
> the point where the LCDd daemon is started.
> 
>    I would appreciate any/all help getting this going correctly!
> 
>    The display is a CrystalFontz 632 USB (a 16x2 display with a USB 
> interface).   I compiled LCDd & LCDproc on Fedora Core 5 
> (2.6.18-1.2239.fc5); configure was run to accept the defaults with 
> display set to CFontz.
> 
>    My LCDd.conf file (/usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf) looks like this (I've 
> removed most of the commented lines, for brevity/clarity):
> 
>     Driver=CFontz
>     Bind=127.0.0.1
>     Port=13666
>     #ReportLevel=3
>     ReportToSyslog=yes
>     WaitTime=5
>     User=nobody
>     ServerScreen=no
>     #Foreground=no
>     DriverPath=/usr/local/lib/lcdproc/
>     ToggleRotateKey=Enter
>     PrevScreenKey=Left
>     NextScreenKey=Right
>     #ScrollUpKey=Up
>     #ScrollDownKey=Down
> 
>     [menu]
>     MenuKey=Escape
>     EnterKey=Enter
>     UpKey=Up
>     DownKey=Down
> 
>     ## CrystalFontz driver (for CF632 & CF634) ##
>     [CFontz]
>     Device=/dev/ttyUSB0
>     Size=16x2
>     Contrast=450
>     Brightness=250
>     OffBrightness=0
>     Speed=19200
>     NewFirmware=yes
>     Reboot=no
>     USB=yes
> 
> 
>    Thanks for reading this far... and if there's some configuration or 
> system information I should have included to help troubleshoot, just let 
> me know.
> 
>   - Brian
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