Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] Treiber einbinden

[Matt J. <mat...@gm...>]

I'd quite like to know how to contribute too.
I tweaked a driver to make it work with a unit I picked up.
Would like to make it available.

Regards

Matt

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 21:33, Tilman Glotzner <til...@ho...>wrote:

>  Hi Micheal
>
> that did the trick. Thanks.
>
> How can I contribute the driver now, so that it becomes part of the
> distribution ?
> I would write a little bit of documentation describing the hardware.
>
>
>
> In addition, I have 2 items for the wish list
> a) TCP-Server-Plugin:
> Use Case 1: Display abitrary and changing information (like the fifo
> plugin)
> Use Case 2: Display messages from other than the local machine.
> (I think LCDProc also relies on a tcpip protocol. If this would be
> integrated it would make the various clients written for lcdProc usable for
> lcd4linux as well)
> b) Show sequence of layers:
> Use Case: Display more infomation than fit directly onto an LCD display by
> showing it sequentially.
>
>
>
> And I found something, that might be a bug:
> lcd4linux resets the display string, if time function changes string while
> it is scrolled.
>
> Using the configuration below on a single line display shorter that the
> string will restart to display the string every second. The string
> will never completely be shown.
>
> /etc/lcd4linux.conf
> Widget Test {
>     class 'Text'
>     expression  strftime(' The current time is %m/%d @ %H:%M %S',time())
>     width 40
>     align 'M'
>     speed 150
>     update 1000
> }
>
> I also wish you guys a happy new year....
>
> Tilman
>
> > Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 03:35:00 +0100
> > From: mi...@re...
> > To: til...@ho...
> > CC: sv...@ki...; lcd...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] Treiber einbinden
>
> >
> > Hi Til,
> >
> > > 1) I am aware of the instructions to integrate a new driver. I made the
> > > changes in drv.c, Makefile.am, and driver.m4, and ran the configure
> script:
> >
> > Probably the driver is available, but not automatically selected if not
> explicitely specified in 'configure
> > --with-drivers=<your_driver>'
> >
> > Quite at the beginning of drivers.m4, you'll find a list of default
> drivers, try to add yours here.
> >
> >
> >
> > happy new year!
> >
> > --
> > Michael Reinelt <mi...@re...>
> > http://home.pages.at/reinelt
> > GPG-Key 0xDF13BA50
> > ICQ #288386781
>
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