you would be better off learning about the pic micro and using a raw lcd.

Im using a 9V battery,
Any adapter capable of outputting 12v will do.

Thanks

What are the screw fitting for the mx232 lcd?
the screws i had dont fit any more and i cant get anyothe screww to fit. WTF?

All im getting is this

YAY i got perl working now but how on earth do i make simple text screens using it?

GOOGLE not helping.
Are there any tutorials on writing screens in perl for lcdproc?
Or can someone make me a perl client that scrolls through several different text screens.

Ill confess here.
I changed mine in xp
i dont have perl installed so im suck.

Sorry for the confusion. "cat" is a command line tool that takes a file and dumps it to the screen. I realised cat was a command and i worked out that cat /dev/etc/etc scand the driver for output. The short answer is that you don't. Not easily anyway. The LCD will do everything over a ser...

Is not LK-404 the family name and LK=4041 the child name of the LCD in that family like
MX-212 is a child of MX-2XX series?

cat?
is there similer to the xev keyboard tool?
Also how do i set functions to the keys?

212 on mandriva LE 2005 kernal 2.6.??
I just cant get the keys to be read, do i need to eneble a keypad driver or something?

It also helps to point the the wrong device ive got mine working now i just need to get the button to be read.

Hi all Just to note you don't need any patch for kernel 2.6 I used MX2xx on a 2.6.0-test9 without any patch worked with LCDd as a charm :) I didn't test with 2.4 kernels. so for 2.6.x just configure as above and compile and configure LCDd and run ... etc and enjoy :) Cool 8) Basem Narmok I think im...