James Tervit - 2019-04-10

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