No worries.

I've found out that LCDproc doesn't like using the built in hardware features anyway, or at least for the matrix orbital drivers. With LCDproc running, I had to figure out how to create a large digit with 6 custom characters instead of 8. This is because they use the 8th slot for ...

I just started looking through the source code for lcdproc. There's some perl examples in the lcdproc-0.4.5/clients/examples folder to get you started.

These work better than the PM I gave you earlier because they point out that you should clear the buffer after every call to the LCDd server ...

That error normally shows up when the "use IO::LCDproc;" line is missing. Could be other things though but I'm not sure what else.

Why doesn't my vk204-24-usb not support large digits?

I've been trying to implement a large clock on it and have been doing the programming from scratch. So I'm not complaining since I've gotten a chance to understand how the unit works now, but I'm more just curious. Was the memory space needed ...

Try using this pm.

http://search.cpan.org/~jcmuller/IO-LCD ... LCDproc.pm

It's not a tutorial, but it's a start.