Hello ports@, after reading an article in a German magazine about building a very cheap (6 Euros) LCD connected to LPT, I build one.
A LCD is much nicer with software to make use of it. That is the reason for my port of lcdproc. Really cool to have them on private "server" machines to see when the newest release is done building without switching on the screen. The port is i386 only because at least parallel hd44780 does not work on amd64, nor sparc64! I tried to get this running on amd64 as well, but amd64 does not implement amd64_set_ioperm() (#if 0ed out in sys/arch/amd64/amd64/sys_machdep.c) # pkg_info lcdproc Information for lcdproc-0.5.2 Comment: client/server displaying system information on a LCD Description: LCDproc is a piece of software that displays real-time system information from your Linux/*BSD box on a LCD. The server supports several serial devices: Matrix Orbital, CrystalFontz, Bayrad, LB216, LCDM001 (kernelconcepts.de), Wirz-SLI, Cwlinux(.com) and PIC-an-LCD; and some devices connected to the LPT port: HD44780, STV5730, T6963, SED1520 and SED1330. Various clients are available that display things like CPU load, system load, memory usage, uptime, and a lot more. LCDproc also supports key or remote control input for controlling the clients. The client and the server use a TCP connection to communicate, so it is possible to have a remote client showing its stats on a LCD display connected local. Maintainer: Andreas Bihlmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://lcdproc.org There is a small perl dependency, which is (now) trivial to port. # pkg_info p5-Geo-METAR Information for p5-Geo-METAR-1.14 Comment: process aviation weather reports in the METAR format Required by: lcdproc-0.5.2 Description: METAR reports are available on-line, thanks to the National Weather Service. Since reading the METAR format isn't easy for non-pilots, these reports are relatively useles to the common man who just wants a quick glace at the weather. Maintainer: Andreas Bihlmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Regards, ahb
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net_p5-Geo-METAR.tgz
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