Well I tried MOGD and I am still unable to communicate to the display. I also tried a different serial cable. I set the settings to COM2 and hit the "display text" button. Nothing happens. I have 5v hooked to the power connnector and I see a nice backlight screen with a flashing block cursor.

With ...

Arg! .. I moved to win2k to try out my lk204-25 and I cannot get characters to display. I opened up hyperterminal and set it to com2 it connects but typing does not display chars to the lcd.

I set baud to 19200 and turned off flow control. I am powering my lcd with the power supply from the ...

Thanks guys. I think I will try out the display on windows first to make sure it works then diagnose why my serial port is not working under linux.

I hope somebody can give me a hand. I'm running RedHat 7.2 and I am trying to program some serial port communication with the matrix display. Using the simple C program provided elsewhere on this site, the "open" is sucessfull but the first call "tcgetattr" failes with "Input/Output" error.

I'm ...

Well I've built an SBC pentium system with 40Gb hard drive and purchased a real commercial DCtoDC converter and mounted it all in a really nice aluminum box. And I just purchased my Matrix Orbital LCD.

I currently have linux installed and want to know what my options are for an MP3 player that can ...