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

[David W Studeman]

On Sunday 06 January 2008 07:52:17 pm David W Studeman wrote:
> 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
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Aww crap! It garbaged on me so I'm now using the KS0073 char map and it seems 
to work but the cpu has no brackets, just weird characters.

Dave