Sorry this is so belated, but I think I have found most of my problems with the keypad.

the rest of the set up works perfectly, now that I know a lot more about it. I am missing chunks I want, but since they appear to be either closed sourced or home brewed I am not too heartbroken about this ...

Thanks for the reply Jon!

Ok, lots of playing since my last post. learned some fun things too.

1.) Keypad works, but not in Linux
2.) WINE doesn't like some of the MO apps (though that was just playing to see what I could get to work before hooking it up to my beast of a gaming machine)
3.) that ...

Ok, so I got some of the stuff working, but still couldn't get the keypad to work. I broke down and pulled the LCD, and hooked it up to my x64 XP Pro box, and started working with the LCD using the windows based tools.

The Keypad still isn't working, and, the guesswork with it is getting a bit ...

Ok, so I figured out what is/was up with LCDproc and the back light. It wasn't listed as a feature in the 0.4.4 version, but listed in the 0.5.1 version. It looks like, no shock, I am sure, a carbon based problem on my end.

I am wondering, I am using a LK204-24 series USB LCD, and the 0.5.5 version ...

Thanks for the Welcome, and it looks like the LCD's from MO are pretty nice.
I have LCDproc up and running now. It works pretty well, just some odd things with the display's back light coming on and off when I run the client software. Haven't found where to change that in there yet.

The LCD (MX ...

I am new to the forums, and new to the flavors of programs I have seen on the forums. I have been looking over the lists for the past 15 hours, off and on, making sure I had all my basis covered. I got my new LCD (MX412) up and running under the O/s and showing the information I desire to this point ...