Hi,
On 5/10/07, Andreas Bihlmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
This would be a great piece of software to have in OpenBSD. I tried
building lcdproc last year and failed and ended up writing my own
(bodge) driver for my parallel HD44780 LCD.
Lcd proc is certainly very nice.
I will test this for you.
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Best Regards
Edd
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