Thread: [lcd4linux] Serial CrystalFontz 632 layout question!

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It seems that this list is slow right now, I never did solve my problem I
post back in march. Now since I have more time to play around I am once
again going to see how this will work.

Also the documentation and google are very lacking. First of all to refresh
your memory! I have a CrystalFontz 632 serial display, the driver is working
I can see stuff on the lcd display. My problem is I can not get the display
to show more than one screen. For example I want different rows, to display
different widgets at different times.

So if I add more than two rows, or choose a different layout, it will only
show the first two, and will not cycle through my row list. For example if I
set say 8 rows, with different columns I end up stuck with it not going to
the different rows.  Basically I want to have two rows as one screen and
have them go on to the next two for say 8-10 different screens. I want to be
able to see disk usage one one screen then net activity on the other
followed by a bar chart. If I read the documentation right this should be
done with the rows, I know that I have only two rows to display. But I want
to have it alternate between the rows. This is unclear in the documentation,
the driver documentation does not mention it either.

Also it is unclear how to slow down a widget, I have played with the
different speeds, the documentation is also not clear on what exactly the
tick and tack do, and what the update is for. I understand it is in
milliseconds, but it does not seem to work as advertised. For example the
widget cpuinfo fly's across my screen, and I have tried to slow it down but
it does not seem to work. If I try to use the gpo widget, I get this when it
tries to run the test.

Crystalfontz::GPO(1): GPO out of range (1..0)
Crystalfontz::GPI(1): GPI out of range (1..0)
Crystalfontz::GPO(4): GPO out of range (1..0)
Crystalfontz: gpio_draw(1): GPO out of range (0..0)
Crystalfontz: gpio_draw(1): GPO out of range (0..0)

Also if you run lcd4linux in interactive mode how do you quit out of the
mode? The man page does not show the proper technique to stop it.  I have to
kill the process to make it stop. ctrl C, or ctrl X, just seem to be std
output.

LCD4Linux 0.10.1-CVS
Linux Gnu-Raiz 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 21:16:35 UTC 2006 x86_64
GNU/Linux
This is with ubuntu amd64 edgy

I would like to get get this working I am willing to test setups, and
layouts but something seems to be wrong.

Gnu_Raiz

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