[Lcdproc] use lpt hd44780 on usb lpt addapter ?

[Stefan Herdler]

Hi,
NA NABOO wrote:
> /dev/usb/lp0 instead of 0x378 ?
LCDProc controls the parallel-port directly via direct IO calls. So the 
port address (like 0x378) of the parallel-port is needed.

Last year there was a attempt to switch to /dev/parportX and ioctl() but 
it had been canceled. Afaik problems with the multi-platform stuff but I 
don't know it exactly.
>
> have not touched Linux since red hat 5.2 ... lots has changed ... been 
> playing with an NSLU2
> Debian etch rc1 and dug out my old home made hd44780-to-lpt (with 
> 20x4) and my usb-to-lpt adapter ... can anyone point me in the right 
> direction to link the hd44780 driver to /dev/usb/lp0
A usb-to-lpt adapter won't work, sorry.

Stefan