From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 09:16:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D45516A4DE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:16:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from quynh-and-brian.org (h-69-3-155-2.MCLNVA23.covad.net [69.3.155.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6972943D45 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@quynh-and-brian.org) Received: (qmail 13210 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 17:16:22 -0000 Received: from localhost.quynh-and-brian.org (HELO quynh-and-brian.org) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by localhost.quynh-and-brian.org (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jan 2004 17:16:22 -0000 Message-ID: <40154A88.4060203@quynh-and-brian.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:12:40 -0500 From: Brian Skrab User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shs-bsd References: <200401251330.03407.shs-bsd@onlinehome.de> In-Reply-To: <200401251330.03407.shs-bsd@onlinehome.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LCD Displays with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:16:25 -0000 Steffen, I have recently installed a Matrix Orbital BLC2021-GW serial LCD kit, and am using LCDproc to drive it. I installed the LCDproc software from the ports tree without any trouble whatsoever. Configuration was extremely simple as the distributed configuration file contains plenty of comments to point you in the right direction. The LCDproc hardware compatibility page, maintained by the authors, contains a section concerning Crystalfontz hardware. I have no experience using USB nor graphical displays with this software, so I cannot comment to its compatibility with them. I chose to use a serial display as it appears, from my research, to be the most compatible hardware and I've no need for the extra speed provided by USB (compatibility over "features"). Hope this helps. ~brian shs-bsd wrote: > Hi everyone, > > is it possible to run a LCD Display (like the Crystalfontz 634) with FreeBSD > so that I can see the CPU Load, Network usage etc. ? > I know there is a programm called LCDproc, has anyone of you running > this program? How does it work? > Are there any other programms like LCDproc that run under FreeBSD? > And what types of LCDs are supportet (Parallel, Serial, USB)? > And one last question: Can I also use Graphical LCDs? > > Thanks, > > Steffen