Re: driving 2 displays

Hi,

The hd44780 driver can use 'virtual' displays made up of several
physical ones, but that is the only one I am aware of.

Regards,
Markus

On 27.08.2012 14:37, David Glaude wrote:
>
> So you need a meta driver that look like one display for the core code
> but reuse two different driver to control the physical lcd?
>
> Or should that be know by the core without a virtual driver in between?
>
> Not sure we have that in stock!
>
> Le 27 août 2012 12:17, "Usagi Yojimbo" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>
>     > Am 27.08.2012 10 <tel:27.08.2012%2010>:09, schrieb Usagi Yojimbo:
>     > > Hi, [...] Currently both displays show the same screens, limiting
>     > > the sizes of the screens to the smaller display's size. I'm
>     looking
>     > > for a way to drive them separately, as if it were one display E.G.
>     > > with a size of 4×16. Is there a way to do this?
>     >
>     > You can use two instances of LCDd, one for each display. Of course
>     > they need to listen for clients on different TCP-ports and you
>     need to
>     > tell every client to which port to connect (means: on which LCD it
>     > should be displayed).
>     >
>     > Best regards,
>     > Jannis
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Yes, that is one way to do it.
>     But as I wrote it, I want to use them as one, double sized screen.
>     Like this: 2×16 + 2×16 = 4×16…
>     I also want to use them, with a single client, that is not capable
>     to use 2 displays, but can handle more than 2 lines.
>
>     Usagistinfo/lcdproc 
>