[Lcdproc] LCDproc on MacOS?[Scanned]

[Phil Taylor]

Hi Ethan.

If you look at the archives, I posted (today) a patch to the IMON driver
to run under MacOS. This uses the MacOS IOKit framework (user mode) to
talk directly to an IMON USB VFD. I decided to do it this way rather
than trying to port the standalone driver and make a .kext as I managed
to do the whole development without crashing my machine once (I have
never managed to do this when playing around with kernel modules!)

This should be a starting point for hacking together a driver for other
USB connected displays. WRT a usb-serial type display, as long as it is
detected as a serial port by the kernel then I would have thought that
it would just work?

Cheers

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lcdproc-admin@lists.omnipotent.net [mailto:lcdproc-
> admin@lists.omnipotent.net] On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
> Sent: 10 July 2007 21:21
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> Subject: [Lcdproc] LCDproc on MacOS?[Scanned]
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> Hi, folks,
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> I am about to get a work-provided Macbook rather than a Linux laptop
> to drag around, and I'm wondering how many folks do LCDproc work under
> MacOS.  I really don't care about the /proc aspect of LCDproc - in
> fact, for the clients I write and use, I don't tend to reference /proc
> at all - I'm more concerned about the simple mechanics of compiling
> LCDproc and attaching serial-interface displays via USB-serial
> interfaces, and USB libraries for displays like lcd2usb-attached
> modules.
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> Does anyone on the list run LCDd on a Mac?  Any known issues?  In case
> it matters, I'll be working on a fresh-off-the-shelf dual-core Intel
> Macbook, not an older PPC-based PowerBook, running whatever the
> current release happens to be (10.4? 10.5?)
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> Thanks,
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> -ethan
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