[Lcdproc] question to VLsys mplay vfd in Zalman case

[Peter Marschall]

Hi Jens,

On Monday, 12. February 2007 01:46, Jens Nixdorf wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007 schrieb Peter Marschall:
> > Your display should be supported in LCDproc 0.5.1 (or later)
> > by the hd44780 driver using ConnectionType=lis2.
>
> Thank you. The LCDd in my LinVDR was V 0.4.5, so it doesnt know
> Connection-Type lis2. I've built V 0.5.1, it runs so far, but the
> display still shows no reaction. I ran lcdproc and LCDd shows (with -r
> 5) this:
>
> [...LCDd log in debug mode...]
>
> So it seems to run and lcdproc is connecting to it, but still the display
> sleeps. Any hint what i may have made wrong?

Right, this looks rather normal.

Not having the hardware I cannot tell what the problem is.

It is not necessarily said that you did something wring.
It might be that they changed the protocol.
Did you check at the VLsys web site ?

Peter

PS: One hint maybe (from personal expierience/suffering ;-):
    /dev/ttyUSB0 is your display ofr sure ?

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Peter Marschall
peter@adpm.de