From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 4: 9: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ideal.net.au (ion.ideal.net.au [203.20.241.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E5B37B405 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:09:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from titus.magus.cc (titus.magus.cc [203.27.67.131]) by mail.ideal.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA87653 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:09:02 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from crowley@thegatesofhell.org) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:12:27 +1100 (EST) From: Chris Aitken X-X-Sender: Reply-To: To: Subject: ppilcd usage Message-ID: <20011227230701.C2181-100000@titus.magus.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Since my last post ive done some more research, and have managed to come across a thing called ppilcd. Which I was able to (eventually) compile and it seems to work in theory...... but my problem is, I cannot get it to display anything on my LCD display panel. The LCD unit is a Hytachi HD44780 compatible unit, wired into the printer port. I plug it into my wintendo machine running LCD Center, and it displays perfectly. I remove it and plug it into my FreeBSD 4.4 box, it wont display anything. If I allow ppilcd to use its defaults (it defaults to /dev/ppi0 and defaults to the built in HD44780 driver) it basically completes the program without any errors putting me back at the command line no dramas. But nothing on the screen appears. Is there anything which might be blocking the signal down the lpt port, or is there anything I have to compile, or even remove from the kernel? Any assistance on this would be greately appreciated. Thanks Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message