Difference between revisions of "Talk:Futaba"

Revision as of 19:05, 27 September 2007

This page tells about USB problems: "If you don't have any USB port 3 problems you should see this in your hardware list as two devices, the VFD and the panel buttons..." Is this a problem that can be fixed by the user? Maniacxs 15:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi the reference to the USB port 3 error originated from the Ubuntu wiki. Several guys reported this problem with the Hyper barebone. Maybe the problem is either in the specific hyper module or in the kernel 2.6.22 for info check the bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/122102/+activity

or on mythtv wiki http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hiper_HMC-2K53A&printable=yes

--Hans B 19:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

The issue with the broken USB port is fixed in kernels >= 2.6.22-git16. I am currently at 2.6.23-rc3 and it works like a charm. -Mat

Hi Mat, i tried to search, where you downloaded the sourcecode from pluto, but i really was not able to find it. The FTP-Servers at pluto site are full of ?Movies? nothing that may help. Maybe you can post a link or download some more files ;) Maniacxs 07:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Maniacxs you can download the pluto source here Media_Live_LCDButtons.src.tar.bz2 --Hans B 09:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry but this the link from the article. There are some files included. The "testapp" e.g. needs a headerfile from the package pluto_main. I hoped, that there, where the tarball comes from the other files can be found, too. Maniacxs 10:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

lcdproc

Lcdproc with driver serialvfd and Display set to Futaba powers the Display on here, but nothing more. Maniacxs 10:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC) Sorry wrong information. After running the pluto source, the VFD powered on even without running lcdproc

Pluto source code

I updated the Futaba Wiki with a Pluto-site that contains all the source code. It's the development site I got the Media_Live_LCDbuttons from. Feel free to poke around and I am sure you will find what you need. deb.plutohome.com.

-Mat

4 sept - James: Here is an attached zip containing the MSI Live Media header and sample file with all commands for the DM-140GINK (tested on the HMC-2K53A. It contains a test app that displays a logo, then after each keypress it shows another message and turns on each icon on the display. It compiled on kernel 2.6 with the DM-140GINK. You may have to tweak the code if you are running a 2.4 kernel because the HID device changed locations. It has all the functions that would be needed for an LCDProc driver but I have never written one and am not sure what the requirements as far as functions go for LCDProc. This is a good starting point since it has the defines for the functions and examples.

The zip file in the link above contains a PDF-file, but you are right James; if you compile led.c contained in the Media_Live_LCDButtons file further above it will light the display up and allow you to see all the functions on the display by pressing enter.

This should make it easy to map into the requirements for a LCDproc driver that MythLCDserver can interact with. I am not very used to c-code though so I probably will not be able to do this myself.

--Mat 11:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Peter: Write a driver for it ;-)

Here's an explanation what LCdproc formally expects from a driver: http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/current-dev.html#add-your-driver

The existing drivers in LCDproc's servier/drivers/ directory should be good examples.

They cover the full range: from simple debug and text drivers to more complex ones.

Some help I tried the lcdproc stuff on the page on a 64bit suse10.2 system so far I am stuck with a wrong ELF Class error ELFCLASS32. Any ideas how I can get around this?--Hans B 19:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)