RE: [cobalt-users] Raq4 LCD

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> "Works great - however any idea how to get text on the same line? i.e. I
> want
> to be able to leave the ip addy on there as is, but want to be able to put
> the words "Temp :" on the same line as the recovered temp value (replacing
> the domain name)...."
>
> Right you will have  to have something like this
>
>  ONE="Temp:"
>  IPADDR="(CAN'T MEM WHAT THIS WAS AS I TOOK IT OUT)
>  TWO="c"
>  /sbin/lcd-write "$ONE""$TWO" "$IPADDR"
>
> Its really good.
>
> I have also found this. Doesnt mean much to me as i dont know where to put
> it or how to run it but its some script to make it scroll!
>
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2002-March/035838.html
>
> Hope this will help and can you let me know how things go as i'd
> love to see
> it scrolling. I have also mailed LCDproc to see if they have any ideas.
>
> Thanks
> Jason

Generally speaking for an LCD display to be able to scroll it needs to have
this functionality built into the driver chip to do a one pixel shuffle
left, right up or down, This normally requires at least double the onboard
memory, so cheaper ones don't have it if it's not likely to be wanted. If
someone who has a RAQ in bits wants to tell me what the chip used is I'll
see if I can find a spec sheet and see if it is possible, though I'm not
promising to write the routine!!

Phil


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