Would you mind showing me in terms of:

$brightness = sprintf "%c153", 0xfe, 255;

try as i might i cant formulate my own commands..

On the old matrixorbital.com there was some example perl code for working with these lcd's, however I didnt download it when i had the chance and it doesnt seem to ...

Miles, thanks for your reply. The revision number on the pcb is REV1.5 with "WB" written next to it in pen.

Surely someone can answer this? or at least point me in the right direction..

Yeah thats possible, I dont know if tcl can write directly to the serial port or not because I've never coded in it, but even if it doesnt you could have a little perl script to do the talking to the LCD and just call it from you TCL scripts passing the string either through a text file or just over ...

Hello,
I've been messing around with my display for a while now and have some working code for an mp3 player using anders MO-Perl module which im sure some of you are fimilar with.
The thing is when i turn on the PC and the LCD lights up, the background is bright blue with a bright grey blinking ...

On the old www.matrixorbital.com there was some example perl code to read input from a keypad and write to your LCD through the serial port. However I didnt save it when i saw it and dont seem to be able to find it on the new site. Perhaps i've overlooked it, if I have i apologize, but other wise ...