Hi All,
I recently blought a Futaba MDM 166A VFd screen and got it working through the following repo, I hope it helps someone else.
Giant thanks to seahawk1986!!!!!
manually:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:seahawk1986-hotmail/lcdproc-futaba-mdm166a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install lcdproc
zcat /usr/share/doc/lcdproc/LCDd.conf.gz | sed 's/^Driver=.*/Driver=mdm166a/' | sudo tee /etc/LCDd.conf
sudo systemctl enable LCDd.service
sudo systemctl start LCDd.service
your LCDd should come alive with the mdm166a display
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Hi All,
I recently blought a Futaba MDM 166A VFd screen and got it working through the following repo, I hope it helps someone else.
Giant thanks to seahawk1986!!!!!
manually:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:seahawk1986-hotmail/lcdproc-futaba-mdm166a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install lcdproc
zcat /usr/share/doc/lcdproc/LCDd.conf.gz | sed 's/^Driver=.*/Driver=mdm166a/' | sudo tee /etc/LCDd.conf
sudo systemctl enable LCDd.service
sudo systemctl start LCDd.service
your LCDd should come alive with the mdm166a display