Epson Serial POS VFD (SED2800F)

Hello all.

First let me apologise if this is the wrong place, but I can't seem to find
the resources I am after anywhere else.

I have recently acquired a couple of epson serial vfd's from point of sale
stands (as purchased on
eBay<http://cgi.ebay.com/Epson-serial-VFD-Display-Arduino-LCD-Smartie-/110448153207?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19b7391277#ht_500wt_949>
).

I have tested the display under WinXP with lcd smartie and it mostly works
apart from a couple of odd characters every now and again. Having moved on
to lcdproc (Ubuntu 10.10) I am having a few small problems.

Config is at least partially working. I get valid characters but I have
different problems depending on protocol selected for the serialpos driver.
If I select AEDEX, the 1st line of the default welcome, however it repeats
on the second line of my vfd, and has various alternating characters.
Looking something like this:-
_#### LCDproc Server
~'1## LCDproc Server

with the first 3 characters of each line flickering in a repeatative
fashion.

If I select Epson as the protocol, I get a string of 010101010101 over and
over (despite attempting to display and rotate between the default screens
of lcdproc.

Standard setup, serialPOS, 20x2, ttyS0, 115200, unchanged config from
default apart from these settings.

Anyone have any ideas? Perhaps the command set on my display is slightly
different than other Epson displays? Any help into where I can go from here
would be appreciated. Link to datasheets and other info are at
http://whitej.googlepages.com/arduinoextras

I am techie enough to get my head around most things, and can use google for
those I don't understand, so don't be afraid to supply a technical answer.

Many thanks in advance, and many thanks for the wonderfully useful piece of
software I plan on using in my projects.

Regards,
marc nannestad
irelandpcguy

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