Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:12:40 -0500 From: Brian Skrab <brian@quynh-and-brian.org> To: shs-bsd <shs-bsd@onlinehome.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LCD Displays with FreeBSD Message-ID: <40154A88.4060203@quynh-and-brian.org> In-Reply-To: <200401251330.03407.shs-bsd@onlinehome.de> References: <200401251330.03407.shs-bsd@onlinehome.de>
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Steffen, I have recently installed a Matrix Orbital BLC2021-GW serial LCD kit, and am using LCDproc to drive it. I installed the LCDproc software from the ports tree without any trouble whatsoever. Configuration was extremely simple as the distributed configuration file contains plenty of comments to point you in the right direction. The LCDproc hardware compatibility page, maintained by the authors, contains a section concerning Crystalfontz hardware. I have no experience using USB nor graphical displays with this software, so I cannot comment to its compatibility with them. I chose to use a serial display as it appears, from my research, to be the most compatible hardware and I've no need for the extra speed provided by USB (compatibility over "features"). Hope this helps. ~brian shs-bsd wrote: > Hi everyone, > > is it possible to run a LCD Display (like the Crystalfontz 634) with FreeBSD > so that I can see the CPU Load, Network usage etc. ? > I know there is a programm called LCDproc, has anyone of you running > this program? How does it work? > Are there any other programms like LCDproc that run under FreeBSD? > And what types of LCDs are supportet (Parallel, Serial, USB)? > And one last question: Can I also use Graphical LCDs? > > Thanks, > > Steffen
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