Re: Pyramid - Driver or Configuration Issue?

I have a hd44780 compatible device that uses the ftdi interface for USB to serial conversion running on FreeBSD 8.2.

It creates /dev/cuaU0 that works for me to access it. Note the capital 'U' instead of the normal system supplied /dev/cuau0 device.

Tom

On Mar 13, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Andy Gardner wrote:

> Thanks for all the help so far. I have now downloaded and installed FreeBSD 9.0 so I believe I should now have the drivers for the Pyramid LCD. When I run the LDCd process I'm still getting the same errors. I still have /dev/ugen6.2 as my device under the Pyramid driver section in the LCDd.conf file. Is this the correct device or should it be something else - you did mention something about treating it as  a serial device. I noticed something in the boot up trace about the KBS LCD display being linked with a device ufdti10.0 or something like that but do not see anything like this in /dev.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andy
> 
> On 9 March 2012 20:13, Markus Dolze <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> > > --
> > > Andy Gardner
> > > Development, Support and Quality Engineer
> > >
> > >
> > > DDI:         +44 (0) 1799 543 355
> > > Mob:        +44 (0) 7973 724506
> > > Tel:          +44 (0) 845 226 1900
> > > Fax:         +44 (0) 845 226 0607
> > > E-Mail:     [email protected]
> > > Support:   [email protected]
> > >
> > > iTrinegy: Network Emulation and Application Performance Monitoring
> > > Specialists
> > _______________________________________________
> > LCDproc mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > http://lists.omnipotent.net/mailman/listinfo/lcdproc
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andy Gardner
> Development, Support and Quality Engineer
> 
> 
> DDI:         +44 (0) 1799 543 355
> Mob:        +44 (0) 7973 724506
> Tel:          +44 (0) 845 226 1900 
> Fax:         +44 (0) 845 226 0607 
> E-Mail:     [email protected] 
> Support:   [email protected] 
> 
> iTrinegy: Network Emulation and Application Performance Monitoring Specialists
>  
> _______________________________________________
> LCDproc mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.omnipotent.net/mailman/listinfo/lcdproc

_______________________________________________
LCDproc mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.omnipotent.net/mailman/listinfo/lcdproc