[Lcdproc] hd44780 Euro Characters and Cobalt Raq 3, 4

[David W Studeman]

Hello all. I just wanted to say that adding the euro character map appears to 
be a step in the right direction. The Cobalt Raq 3 and 4 which are basically 
the same Gen III Cobalt hardware platform use a hd44780 compatible ks0066u 
and I use the compatible part loosely. The winamp wiring is compatible but 
the default char mapping and everything else tried, would yield garbage on 
the 16x2 lcd but not always. I compiled 0.5.2 but replaced the hd44780 driver 
source files with the latest cvs pulls and set up the daemon to use the euro 
charmap and so far am getting clean output. I'll let it run and see if it 
holds up. I did compile with the enable menu option but I'm more concerned 
with clean output. With the default char mapping, it would sometimes put out 
clean text for a while and then turn to garbage later, even hours sometimes.  
 I am involved with a very humble ipcop based project for raq3i and 4i as well 
as velociraptors 500 through 1100, that we call raqcop at raqcop.com. It is 
really nothing but  the IPCop firewall distro patched with Cobalt drivers to 
run on these and also an e100 driver patch needed to ignore hardware 
checksumming in the i82559er chips. I have used the kernel lcd driver but the 
display scripts for Cobalt are pretty boring and the menu scripts which would 
need a lot of work are horrific and contain more perl scripts than IPCop 
itself. I feel that I can do a lot more with lcdproc and not have 200 files 
required to run the lcd and menus. 
 I'm finding that having only a 16x2 display does not unleash all the glory of 
lcdproc but plenty of useful stuff for a firewall though, your loads, uptimes 
and so forth. Is the cpu display supposed to show the clock speed in 
brackets? Mine shows an R sometimes but the load percentage always displays 
as it should.
 Thanks for the euro characters! I hope they are kept.


Dave