Re: Pyramid - Driver or Configuration Issue?

Follow-up to myself:

Support for Pyramid LCD was introduced in FreeBSD 8.2. See here for the patch: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=usb/129758

Regards,
Markus

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:52:43 +0100
> Von: "Markus Dolze" <[email protected]>
> An: Andy Gardner <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [Lcdproc] Pyramid - Driver or Configuration Issue?

> Hi,
> 
> this is a problem with FreeBSD. If I remember correctly the device should
> show up as a serial port instead of 'ugen' device. I currently don't have
> my device at hand, but I will check next week.
> 
> It either requires a kernel hack (adding the vendor / product id to the
> USB serial driver) or using usbconfig to set some device quirks, but I don't
> remember.
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:34:25 +0000
> > Von: Andy Gardner <[email protected]>
> > An: [email protected]
> > Betreff: [Lcdproc] Pyramid - Driver or Configuration Issue?
> 
> > I'm pretty new to LCDproc so please bear with me. I am trying to program
> a
> > Pyramid based LCD on a machine that is running FreeBSD (8.1) based O/S.
> > 
> > 
> > If I run usbconfig on the machine I get the following output
> > 
> > ugen0.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > ugen1.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > ugen2.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > ugen3.1: <EHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
> (480Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > ugen4.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > ugen5.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus5, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > ugen6.1: <UHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus6, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> (12Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > ugen7.1: <EHCI root HUB Intel> at usbus7, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
> (480Mbps)
> > pwr=ON
> > *ugen6.2: <KBS USB LCD Display KBS> at usbus6, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL
> > (12Mbps) pwr=ON*
> > 
> > So I have configured my device in the LCDd.conf file as /dev/ugen6.2
> under
> > the pyramid section.
> > 
> > I cannot seem to get the LCDd to talk to the LCD display and get the
> > following errors
> > 
> > "pyramid: reading TTY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > Driver [pyramid] init failed, return code -1
> > Could not load driver pyramid
> > There is no output driver
> > Critical error while initializing, abort."
> > 
> > 
> > So my question to you guys is, is this just a configuration issue and I
> > need to add something else to the conf file, or is this a driver issue?
> If
> > the latter do I need to write another driver or do you know if one
> exists
> > for this?
> > 
> > thanks in advance for any light you can shed.
> > 
> > Andy
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