I added a small experimental (but functional) kernel module which enables to write simple text to /dev/lcd which is displayed on it.
Thanks to frosch03, a brand new project wiki has been set up.
It can be found at http://lcddriver.sourceforge.net/. There will be found documentation and information about the lcddriver project.
Release 0.0.2 is out now. We added support to print some text out to the display via network from the reference client. There are still known bugs.
There is added some documentation on the document section of our project, on how to connect the display and how to use the client
The first release of lcddriver is ready. It contains a "server"-core with functions to use the display. Further, some testbenches show how to use the lcddriver core functions. A small client/server is written as base but does not interact with the display.
As there is no documentation about connecting the display to the parallel printer port please refer to
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September2002/article258.shtml