Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] Driver for "Bit-mapped" displays

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

> Well, I know... my very first computer had eight 7segment chars as only 
> display...
that leads me to the evil question: how old are you? :-)

my first one was a Commodore VC20.

>> That could be a GPO, too. GPO's are 32 bit at the moment, so if your
>> bars exceed 32 leds....
> 
> Yep, some sort of "percent value" => "bit pattern" translation would be 
> missing, but could be quite easily added as evaluator plugin.
Oh no, that should be possible right now:
2^x-1 should give you the result...

> BTW, in case someone wants to play in the same sandbox, the display I used is 
> still sold by Pollin (www.pollin.de) for 75 cent (50cent if you order three). 
> They also have some example schematic for it (bit banging iface on parport, 
> with some pascal software)

sounds cool, but pollin has pretty high shipping costs to austria. I'm
*not* going to buy *anything* from pollin with this costs.... Maybe you
could buy one for me and send it to me? (I'll pay for the regular
shipping costs, of course)



bye, Michael

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