[Lcdproc] CFontz 634 (serial) only gets blank screen

[Cameron Dale]

On 1/17/07, Peter Marschall <peter@adpm.de> wrote:
> Would you mind trying the nightly LCdproc tarball available on
> http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/nightly/lcdproc-CVS-current.tar.gz ?
> There have been a few changes since 0.5.1.
>
> Don't worry, you do not need to install it. It can be run from the
> source directory. All you need to do is calling the freshly compiled
> LCDd to an approriately adapted LCDd.conf:
> Usually all you need to do after compiling LCDd and changing LCDd.conf
> is:
>         ./server/LCDd -c ./LCDd.conf -f -r5 -s0
>
> The -s0 and -r5 make LCDd log alot more than a lot info to stderr.

Here is the output from the CVS version (it looks the same as 0.5.1
did). The results are the same, a boot screen, one flash of a cursor,
then nothing.

LCDd version CVS-current-20070117 starting
Built on Jan 17 2007, protocol version 0.3, API version 0.5
Using Configuration File: ./LCDd.conf
Set report level to 5, output to stderr
LCDd CVS-current-20070117, LCDproc Protocol 0.3
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Server running in foreground
Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
screenlist_init()
driver_load( name="CFontz", filename="server/drivers/CFontz.so")
CFontz: using Device /dev/ttyS0
CFontz: init() done
Key "Escape" is now reserved in exclusive mode by client [-1]
Key "Enter" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
Key "Up" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
Key "Down" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_switch: switched to screen [_server_screen]
screenlist_process()
screenlist_process()
screenlist_process()
screenlist_process()
screenlist_process()
screenlist_process()
screenlist_process()
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
screenlist_process()
screenlist_switch( s=[_server_screen] )
Server shutting down on SIGINT
Key "Escape" was reserved in exclusive mode by client [-1] and is now released
Key "Enter" was reserved in shared mode by client [-1] and is now released
Key "Up" was reserved in shared mode by client [-1] and is now released
Key "Down" was reserved in shared mode by client [-1] and is now released
screenlist_shutdown()
Exiting.

> Playing with brightness and contrast might also help.

I've tried this but nothing seemed to help.

Thanks,
Cameron