Alright, I think I have found the problem.

slowtolearn, your script doesn't seem to be appending the "trailing slash" to DriverPath as it should. Its 2:15 AM here now, and I'm too lazy to look at the code myself, but that seems to be what is happening.

bag, this is what I did to get my imon VFD (from the Antec Fusion case) working after running slowtolearn's script:


search for "DriverPath" (Ctrl+w to search in nano)
it'll take you down to a line that looks like this:

You need to add a trailing slash to the end to make it look like this:


All you have to do now is reboot, or start the lcdproc daemon and restart mythlcdserver.

btw, slowtolearn, thanks for the script. You saved me lots of time

(I thought I had responded to this earlier, but I don't see it now..)

That's odd, that's what this block is for Worked in my testing, did the script make the Driver=imon change for you?

No problem, that was the intention

The script did everything apart from add the trailing slash

Hmmm, interesting. What version of KM are you using (more specifically, which version of sed)?

I'll reload R5F1 in the next couple days and make sure I didn't get something wrong when I posted the script.

EDIT: I'm an idiot! I just looked at the script I posted, it's not the last version I put together. Not at my boxen right now, I'll post the real version when I get home. (The problem is the sed's are using 2 different files for input and independently writing /etc/LCDd.conf - Workaround is as alcatraz_inm8 stated earlier) /EDIT

OK, I have updated the script on the first page of this post (Monday, June 18 13:45 EDT).

Ok I think I may have made a complete hash of everything. Tried the wiki first and that didn't really work, so had a little google and came across this thread but only after I had a play with the venky patch which I now realise isn't needed with the newer version of lcdproc.

So - am running R5F1 (and using the imon that comes with an antec fusion case), tried the wiki with lcdproc 5.2 everything seemed to be ok until I tried to send a message to /dev/lcd0 - nothing appeared.

dmesg | grep imon indicated some error so thats where I went on to try the venky patch

now I get



and after trying slowtolearns script nothing much has changed

apart from after the initial reboot after following the wiki /dev/lcd0 dissapeared and the /dev/lcd0 now when I try output to it I get

bash: /dev/lcd0: No such device

any pointers greatly appreciated.

Well, first thing is you will need a device node to communicate through - Try (as root)
Let me know what that gets you...