Some advice on 5.25" bay graphic LCD module or VFD
Kaya Saman <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:52:07 +0200
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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