On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Yan Seiner wrote:
> --- In "waggywagz" <> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a TS-supplied 24x2 character display and though I haven't done
> > anything with it yet, I am looking forward to hooking it up to test
> > your code and perhaps get some inspiration from it.
>
> I sent a fairly crude patch to lcdd to Jim before I left on vacation;
> this being summer I doubt he has had much of a chance to do anything
> with it.
Hi, Sorry Yan, I've not had time to look at this. I may get time this
month, but I doubt I'll be able to do much more than look. Sept. is
looking pretty heavy at the moment. I've got 2 trips away and a major
project report to finish. I'm supposed to have retired, but seem busier
than ever.
But all the code is GPL, so someone can just take it over and do what they
want. I agree with Yan about the state of the code - I got it working
just enough for what I needed :-)
cheers
Jim
> The patch provides some basic ANSI/vt100 type controls for
> the 2xXX screen, but big chunks of lcdd would have to be rewritten to
> take full advantage of the various ways that text can be entered on
> screen.
>
> I'll post the patch on my website sometime this week. I'm comming off
> a 10 day vacation, so I have no idea what my week is going to look
> like, except that I know it will be a panic.... :-)
>
> >
> > Now that I have a working 80x40 character LCD display (my first
> > verilog project; more details later), I have been muttering foul
> > language while pacing the endless twisted corridors of the Linux
> > console legacy, unable to decipher the cryptic signposts: tty, ptty,
> > ttym, ttys, ttyS, vt, vc, vcs, and vcsa, /dev, /proc, as well as
> > getty, mingetty, screen, ttys, and so on, in a vain attempt to figure
> > out a simple way to use the darn thing as a console.
>
> For starters, look up microwindows. The source code for the examples
> includes a basic vt52 console driver. This is what I used as a go-by
> for my lcdd patch (except that IMHO my code is a bit cleaner, or at
> least I understand it better.... ;-) )
>
> --Yan
>
>
>
>
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