Parallel port LCD driver undocumented

Peter Hüwe PeterHuewe at gmx.de
Tue Apr 13 23:19:53 UTC 2010


Am Mittwoch 14 April 2010 01:13:40 schrieb Michal Suchanek:
> Hello
> 
> I was thinking about adding a LCD to my PC so I thought that the
> panel.c driver which just went to 2.6.34 would be helpful.
> 
> The problem is there is no documentation. I can get quite detailed
> documentation for at least some LCDs that are sold around here but
> there is not enough documentation for the driver to determine if the
> LCD in question would be compatible with the driver and with which
> protocol.
> 
> Detailed explanation of the parameters would be appreciated. For
> example, there are three parallel protocols supported but there is no
> description of the difference between them.
> 
> Thanks

Hi,
I CC'ed willy - the original author of the driver - maybe he can help out.


Meanwhile - did you have a look at LCDproc?
http://lcdproc.org/
Userspace "drivers" for a lot of lcds and keypads.

Peter







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