Some advice on 5.25" bay graphic LCD module or VFD

Kaya Saman <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:52:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.lcdproc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

first up I'd like to ask what a good USB 5.25" LCD or VFD module is???

The bigger the display area the better for me and touch screen is not 
necessary.

I have looked at CrystalFontz and MatrixOrbital and they look really 
interesting.


I don't know much about LCD module's for computer bays and would like to 
get more into it by adding them into my server bays. Ideally I would 
like to make use of the graphic features on the LCD panels but I have 
read in the lcdproc documentation that it is not supported??

Would it be just worth getting a simple monochrome text LCD and 
displaying bargraphs and text info or would I actually be able to make 
use of the graphical features with lcdproc.

Currently I am using lcd4linux on one box which has a built in PicoLCD 
display - the Mini-Box M300 model which does a good job but segfaults 
when I try to use the buttons and the support is quite limited too as 
the mailing list is pretty low traffic. For someone like myself with not 
much knowledge or experience in the area it's quite difficult to get 
things working with what I want to display.


Anyway, any advice or direction would be great.


Thanks,


Kaya