I am sure that lcd is enabled in Myth.

I have the enclosure of Silverstonetek, type LC11m. It is mentioned that it has: VFD, IR, remote control, iMON media center software.
So I assume it has an VFD, don't know which model and I don't know the difference between LCD and VFD. I always thought it was the same :-S Can someone tell me the difference?

I am not able to check my LCDd.conf file. Will do that on Thursday. Properly a mistake there. I will also check if LCDd is running.

Will let you know more at Thursday. Thanks for all your tips!

Good.

Silverstone is using LCDs in some of their enclosures. Just wanted to make sure we were comparing apples to apples. Your VFD should work just the same as mine (I have the LC10M case).

This is most likely the issue. Go through the first page of this thread for the LCDd particulars (pay special attention to my last post on that page), once you have that squared away I think you'll have a working VFD.

Yep, let us know how it works out.

Hi,

Well I changed the driver to imon in LCDd.conf, but it didn't help (I try a reboot).

Messages in logfile:


I use the following file in the rd5.d to create the /dev/lcd0 and to start the LCDd. I need to create the /dev/lcd0 in this file, else it will disappear each time after a reboot. Here is the content:


Any tips??

That's it for the imon stuff? Hmmm, something's not right here, you should see something along the lines of
Are you using the patched driver I linked to on the first page of this post? I couldn't get the VFD to work without it.


Try moving that to S91LCD. As bkamen mentioned (first post on this thread) there are prerequisits to starting LCDd, you want it as late in the boot process as possible.


Make sure each of these is occuring. In order as you have them in the script (after a reboot):



Other thoughts:

Is your /etc/LCDd.conf file pointing to /dev/lcd0 in the imon section? Should look like this:

Last but not least, make sure you can still echo "Test" >/dev/lcd0. The only other thing I can think of is I had to move the modprobe lirc_imon to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh when I changed to a serial IR receiver recently. What are you using for a remote/receiver?

Hereby the answers on your questions and the actions:

I did use the pathed driver. I tried to install it again. It seems to be installed ok, this is what the command make tells me:


I moved my script to S91LCD. I moved the line "modprobe lirc_imon" from the script to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh.

The output of the commands as showned in your reaction is:


I checked the /etc/LCDd.conf file and it is pointing to /dev/lcd0 in the imon section.

I still can echo to my display using


Do you see something wrong here?

I have the imon_vfd working on my box and this is what my system looks like:



I'd guess the mceusb device is causing a conflict of some sort.

DT

Your LCDd isn't running, you should see something like:



So your device is configured properly, and lirc_imon appears to be doing it's job. Try starting LCDd from an XTerm with /usr/sbin/LCDd, let's see what error (if any) is returned. I'm still thinking there is something wrong with your LCDd.conf file.

Yes!! It is working. LCDd was giving an error. It could not find the imon.so. I changed the DriverPath in LCDd.conf to /usr/sbin/LCDd/ and now it is working. Really cool that it also shows the menu when you are browsing, now I don't need to put on the tv to listen to music. My girlfriend was complaining about that

One last thing, and that is the remote control that comes with the VDF. Slowtolearn, is this hard to do? You have the same kind of system as I have, so you should know

Thanks for all your help!!

Glad to hear you got it going.

I long ago gave up on the IR receiver in my LC10M (much too slow, inconsistent results) so I can't help you there. Maybe it was the drivers at the time, but with the Harmony remote I have no reason to revisit the iMON.

You're welcome

I've been tinkering with getting the Soundgraph iMON VFD working using the R5E50 release, and I got it working without downloading anything! The VFD is in the MStation HT-1100 case.

I'll assume that you already have KnoppMyth installed and running, and just want to activate the VFD.

Here's how:

Edit these lines in the [server] section of the /etc/LCDd.conf file:Doublecheck the [imon] section that it has:Save the file, then issue this to add it into the init.d scripts:That gets LCDd running. Now on to lirc.

Edit the /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file, and REMOVE the following line:Now edit the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf and change these lines:Save the changes.

Enter the Mythtv frontend settings, select Appearance, and on the last screen, check that you want to use the LCD.

Reboot your system, and it should work!

I'm hoping to tackle the remote in the next week. The remote DOES power the unit up. I made sure that the USB port that I plugged the VFD into is supplying standby power. It was a jumper on the mobo to do that.

EDIT: 06/09/07

These hacks do NOT allow the display to work in R5F1. I pulled this thread to try to reactivate the VFD with a fresh install of R5F1, but there seems to be a permission problem on the /dev/lcd0 device.

I've read other comments about this issue, but I'm NOT sure where I should hack the init.d scripts to change them.

Still haven't worked out the remote issue, but one of these days.

Original poster might have forgotten to post the answer, and it's actually mentioned elsewhere too, but for convenience I'll add here my solution:

In /etc/init.d/LCDd, just after line

Add the line


Restart LCDd.

Hi!

I just might have a solution for users with Silverstone GD01-MX casing.

The reason why the display didn't work is that the display is actually a LCD, a 96x16 dotmatrix.
Additionally the device has the same USB ID as one of the VFD versions, but it has a different protocol in use.

Now, with support from MediaPortal forums, I found a way to control this display on Linux.

The problem holding the solution is that I dont know should the char->graph conversion be performed on kernel driver (lirc_imon) or on the lcdproc driver.
There will be need for changes to kernel driver, and the name should be changed as LCD and VFD driver cant be in same file, or atleast I didn't come up with any clever way to separate these displays from each other.

Unfortunately I may not have time to complete this. Just if someone else had time to do the coding this.
What I wonder is that how come noone has done this already?

EDIT: Proof-of-concept available.
Patch the lirc-0.8.2 driver, compile and update. Only the driver needs to be updated, not the full lirc for this display.
Try the lcdtest tool.
Sources are available from http://www.ryymin.net/jyri/electronics/iMonLCD/

Hope this helps. Atleast one can now shut it down or display the clock

Anyone have the Imon VFD working with R5F27?

I've been banging my head on a brick wall over this for the past day, and I'm not getting anywhere.

I can do the


and that shows up. The modules are loaded, and even the Myth setup says to use the LCD display.

Permissions are set to 666 on /dev/lcd0, so that's not an issue either.

It was working fine with R5F1, so I'm a bit stumped.

Mine is working on R5F27; it didn't work straight out though.
I had to change the Driver=curses to Driver=imon in /etc/lcdproc/LCD.conf I also edited the GoodBye messages, but I didn't HAVE to.

I had to change START=no to START=yes in /etc/defaults/LCDd

and I had to run update-rc.d LCDd defaults

I'm pretty sure from there it just worked after a reboot.

NOTE here:

The /etc/lcdproc/LCDd.conf file IS used as the config if you run the 'update-rc.d' script. This means that the /etc/LCDd.conf file is IGNORED.

I'm still having some problems getting lcdproc working, but I'm mucking my way through it.