Re: [Freevo-users] lcd

2009-07-02 Thread John Percival
icely centered. Thanks for the prompt replies and for pointing me in the right direction. John. > > From: Andreas Dick > Sent: Wed Jul 01 23:24:36 CEST 2009 > To: , > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] lcd > > > hei John > I hope you

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd

2009-07-01 Thread Andreas Dick
hei John I hope you find out how to change the lcd2 plugin for your needs. if you dig the code, you will find how the display size is coded. the clock and status informations are placed on the right end of the top line, probably you will have to change this position (+2). in the code you will f

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd

2009-07-01 Thread Duncan Webb
John Percival wrote: > I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo E which has, I think, a Futaba dm140 VFD. > > When I try to acitvate the lcd plugin, it complains that it cannot find a > screen for a 2x18 display (5x8 matrix). > > Activating the lcd2 (2x16) plugin works a lot better but with one slight >

[Freevo-users] lcd

2009-06-30 Thread John Percival
I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo E which has, I think, a Futaba dm140 VFD. When I try to acitvate the lcd plugin, it complains that it cannot find a screen for a 2x18 display (5x8 matrix). Activating the lcd2 (2x16) plugin works a lot better but with one slight irritation. The last character of

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-19 Thread Duncan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Le Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:48:28 +0200, > Markus Wittenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > >> Size=20x4 > > Tnx Markus, > > have you some photos from this dispayed freevo file ? > i juste found this : > http://www.chrismeighan.com/gallery2/d/394-2/media_pc_02.jpg > > i l

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-19 Thread patric...@laposte.net
Le Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:05:23 +0200, Andreas Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > hei wow. nice case! in progress ;) http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/OverclockingCoolingTuning/Tuning/homemade-recup-powered-sujet_268333_1.htm#bas -- Patrick. envoye depuis le monde libre ... par un Pc sous Mandr

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-18 Thread Andreas Dick
Am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2008 22.12:06 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Le Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:48:28 +0200, > > Markus Wittenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Regards > > i build a home case : ( sorry french board but just look photos ) > http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/OverclockingCoolingTuning/Tunin

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-18 Thread patric...@laposte.net
Le Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:48:28 +0200, Markus Wittenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Regards i build a home case : ( sorry french board but just look photos ) http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/OverclockingCoolingTuning/Tuning/homemade-recup-powered-sujet_268333_1.htm i don't know if is possible have

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-18 Thread Dirk Meyer
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Le Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:48:28 +0200, > Markus Wittenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > >> Size=20x4 > > Tnx Markus, > > have you some photos from this dispayed freevo file ? > i juste found this : > http://www.chrismeighan.com/gallery2/d/394-2/media_pc_02.jpg > > i lov

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-17 Thread patric...@laposte.net
Le Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:48:28 +0200, Markus Wittenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Size=20x4 Tnx Markus, have you some photos from this dispayed freevo file ? i juste found this : http://www.chrismeighan.com/gallery2/d/394-2/media_pc_02.jpg i love that : http://freevo.der-dude.org/ but this

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-17 Thread Markus Wittenberg
Hi I have a Noritake VFD. With LCDd and the following settings it's pretty easy to use it with freevo. Driver=hd44780 ConnectionType=Winamp Port=0x378 Size=20x4 Of course you have to activate the LCD plugin within local_conf.py (plugin.activate('lcd')). Need more help? Regards Markus [EMAIL

[Freevo-users] LCD display and Freevo

2008-10-17 Thread patric...@laposte.net
Hi, who use Lcd display on freevo ? homemade or commercial product ? I built a box for my Freevo and I would like to add a lcd. if you have experience . best regards . -- Patrick. envoye depuis le monde libre ... par un Pc sous Mandriva 2008 Spring !

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-04 Thread Han Hartgers
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Han Hartgers wrote: >> I am also digging around in the pylcd.py file, but for an other reason >>>From LCDd version 0.5 should all the text send to the daemon be in the >> form of "ISO 8859-1" or Latin-1, and I believe that Fr

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-02 Thread Duncan Webb
Han Hartgers wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Markus Wittenberg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> At the moment im using lcd plugin. lcd2 plugin is fine too but I have to >> examine >> it first. >> >> My first idea was to modify 'pylcd.py'. Maybe while doing the connect you can >> tell

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-01 Thread Han Hartgers
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Markus Wittenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > At the moment im using lcd plugin. lcd2 plugin is fine too but I have to > examine > it first. > > My first idea was to modify 'pylcd.py'. Maybe while doing the connect you can > tell LCDd how to handle different c

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-01 Thread Markus Wittenberg
Hi At the moment im using lcd plugin. lcd2 plugin is fine too but I have to examine it first. My first idea was to modify 'pylcd.py'. Maybe while doing the connect you can tell LCDd how to handle different clients. I didn't go very deep into the code. And I don't know if LCDd supports such a f

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-01 Thread Andreas Dick
hei Markus I wrote the lcd2 plugin, and no, the standard LCDproc screens are not possibla as far. but I think if you digg the code, you should find a way to insert it... in the case of questions about the code, just ask me! Andreas Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 14.48:51 schrieb Markus Wittenberg: >

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Markus Wittenberg wrote: > Hi > > I'm using the LCD plugin and LCDproc and this is really cool. > > Unfortunately when freevo is running no other information is shown on the > display. I'm wondering if it was possible to configure LCD plugin in a way to > show sequently freevo screens and LCDPr

[Freevo-users] LCD plugin / toggling screens

2008-07-01 Thread Markus Wittenberg
Hi I'm using the LCD plugin and LCDproc and this is really cool. Unfortunately when freevo is running no other information is shown on the display. I'm wondering if it was possible to configure LCD plugin in a way to show sequently freevo screens and LCDProc screens like CPU usage. Maybe there

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Duda
I just want to wrap up this thread with the final solution. After a week of investigation and learning, I found out that this Xorg message: (--) NVIDIA(0): SHARP HDMI (DFP-0): 135.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) NVIDIA(0): SHARP HDMI (DFP-0): Internal Single Link TMDS Actual describes

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-03-01 Thread Duncan Webb
Jim Duda wrote: > > Would something like this work? > > > > Section "Monitor" > > > > Identifier "Sharp LCD HDTV" > > ModeLine "1920x1080_60-Sharp_D92U" 148.35 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 > > 1085 1090 1125 +hsync +vsync > > Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE" > > Option "Mod

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-03-01 Thread Jim Duda
> Would something like this work? > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "Sharp LCD HDTV" > ModeLine "1920x1080_60-Sharp_D92U" 148.35 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 > 1085 1090 1125 +hsync +vsync > Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE" > Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutio

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-03-01 Thread Léon rsv
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:01 +0100 > From: Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help > To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" &g

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-02-28 Thread Duncan Webb
On Wed, 28 February, 2007 11:14 pm, Jim Duda wrote: > By adding these two lines to the "Monitor" Section of Xorg.conf > > > Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE" > Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck" > > > I was able to get 1360x768 to work. > > > If my settop box can do 1920x1080 wi

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Duda
By adding these two lines to the "Monitor" Section of Xorg.conf Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE" Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck" I was able to get 1360x768 to work. If my settop box can do 1920x1080 with a 135Mhz pixel clock, I don't see why not X wouldn't work

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-02-28 Thread Jonathan Isom
It depend upon the driver. newer nvidia binary drivers don't use modelines. On 2/28/07, Elizabeth Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 18:18, Léon rsv wrote: > > You don't seem to have a valid modeline. I thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not > > HDTV > > spec, so your TV w

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-02-28 Thread Dirk Meyer
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 18:18, Léon rsv wrote: >> You don't seem to have a valid modeline. I thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not >> HDTV >> spec, so your TV won't accept that on the HDMI input. So you have to feed >> it with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] modeline. You should be ab

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-02-28 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 18:18, Léon rsv wrote: > You don't seem to have a valid modeline. I thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not > HDTV > spec, so your TV won't accept that on the HDMI input. So you have to feed > it with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] modeline. You should be able to find one, there's > pl

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-02-27 Thread Léon rsv
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:44:46 -0500 From: Jim Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I thought I did a good job re

[Freevo-users] LCD Monitor Setup Help

2007-02-27 Thread Jim Duda
I thought I did a good job researching my High Definition LCD purchase, now I'm not so sure. I purchased a Sharp Acquos LC-42D62U TV, which supports 1080p and 2 HDMI inputs. The TV is just amazing when watching the high def cable feeds. I'm struggling to get freevo working properly, I'm hoping

[Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2006-11-14 Thread Cornelius Koelbel
Hello List, finally I installed my lcd screen (a simple hd44780) in my freevo box. I was using 1.5.4 and upgraded to freevo 1.6 recently. I loaded the lcd plugin but get just a simple Hello,-it's-wednesday-15th-screen. What do I have to do, to also add menus on my lcd (27x4 chars), so that I do n

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd displays

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Wetherell
I did a quick write up about it not too long ago: http://freevohelp.com/lcd.html   It is the Crystalfontz 634 LCD.  On 1/9/06, Alberto Hernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: El Lunes, 9 de Enero de 2006 21:09, Justin Wetherell escribió:> I have an USB 3 line LCD display on my Freevo, it works very wel

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd displays

2006-01-09 Thread Alberto Hernando
El Lunes, 9 de Enero de 2006 21:09, Justin Wetherell escribió: > I have an USB 3 line LCD display on my Freevo, it works very well. You can > navigate all the menus with the it and it also display id3 tags and fxd > info while playing movies/music. This sounds great. Could you tell what model is i

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd displays

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Wetherell
I have an USB 3 line LCD display on my Freevo, it works very well. You can navigate all the menus with the it and it also display id3 tags and fxd info while playing movies/music. On 1/9/06, Cornelius Koelbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,unfortunately I do not have the answer. I am not running a l

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd displays

2006-01-09 Thread Cornelius Koelbel
Hi, unfortunately I do not have the answer. I am not running a lcd display but I think this is a neat idea. I think there are display to connect to the parallel port supported by lcdproc? Do you, if freevo only displays information on the lcd (as in the "layouts" in lcd.py) or will for example th

[Freevo-users] lcd displays

2006-01-08 Thread Alberto Hernando
Hi. I'm considering buying a lcd display for my freevo box, as I want to have it working without the tv on in some cases. I want to use an usb display, because the only serial port of the box (asus pundit-r) is busy with the ir remote control. I've been navigating the hardware section of lcdpro

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-29 Thread Jaap Struyk
Op za 29-10-2005, om 22:07 schreef Karl Lattimer: > How about clock on the first line, > > on the second line do things like scroll headlines, weather, sysinfo > etc... I adapted the lcd.py to show the clock and date when idle (it wasn't, it only shows clock on 4x20/16 on startup) but the clock

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
I think the lcd plugin including track length, position, name etc... would be best when playing a movie but If you look at a DVD player one issue that always bugs me is that they insist on having a constantly moving/flickering playing icon. This is stupid and distracting. the screen should chan

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Bettencourt
Karl Lattimer wrote: How about clock on the first line, on the second line do things like scroll headlines, weather, sysinfo etc... Being that I havent even fired up emacs yet, sure, that sounds reasonable? I don't know how to interact with the freevo headlines/weather stuff. I know i can

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
How about clock on the first line, on the second line do things like scroll headlines, weather, sysinfo etc... On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:04 -0600, Matthew Bettencourt wrote: > I have been toying with the idea of redoing the lcd part in freevo since > i also have a new lcd display. I was thinking

Re: [Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Bettencourt
I have been toying with the idea of redoing the lcd part in freevo since i also have a new lcd display. I was thinking of reworking it to do basically what it does now when buttons are pressed and for a short time after that. However, act more like a system clock when it is idle. Kinda like a

[Freevo-users] lcd plugin

2005-10-28 Thread Jaap Struyk
Hello, I recently bought an 2x16 lcd display for in my freevo box and it seems to work out of the box, I think. It's showing me the menu entry's, the played file, but no elapsed times and in the main menu as far I can tell from the plugin it should display the system time but that's not showing al

[Freevo-users] lcd plugin with 1x16 display

2005-09-25 Thread Claudio
Hi, I'm trying to use lcdplugin with a 1x16 display but I'm not able to set the screen to show me always and only the selected item. I've seen the lcd.py file... but with no success. The display works correctly with lcdproc. Could anyone please help me? Thank you Claudio ---

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD and sound issues

2004-04-03 Thread Justin T Wetherell
It really sounds like interference to me, I guess ill try and get some rubber or maybe some better shielded cords. Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: --- Justin T Wetherell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I have installed a LCD (634 USB LCD)* *using the USB headers on my motherboard, since doin

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD and sound issues

2004-04-02 Thread Steve Randall
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: --- Justin T Wetherell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I have installed a LCD (634 USB LCD)* *using the USB headers on my motherboard, since doing that I am getting horrible static on my sound. It only happens when I watch a recorded show, when I listen to the

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD and sound issues

2004-04-02 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
--- Justin T Wetherell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I have installed a LCD (634 USB LCD)* *using the USB headers on my > motherboard, since doing that I am getting horrible static on my > sound. > It only happens when I watch a recorded show, when I listen to the tv > > live thru Freevo I do

[Freevo-users] LCD and sound issues

2004-04-02 Thread Justin T Wetherell
I have installed a LCD (634 USB LCD)* *using the USB headers on my motherboard, since doing that I am getting horrible static on my sound. It only happens when I watch a recorded show, when I listen to the tv live thru Freevo I dont hear the static. Anyone have any suggestions (besides removing

[Freevo-users] LCD Cfontz 634

2004-02-05 Thread Justin T Wetherell
I have the Cfontz 634 LCD with the serial to USB connector. I am running Slackware 9.1 with Kernel 2.4.22. I am trying to get them to work together. I changed mt minicom set-up for ttyUSB0, 19200 baud, and no flow control, saved that set-up as minirc.dfl. I then can output test to the LCD scree

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin - 1.3.4

2003-08-14 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
You need pylcd, that is not in the last release (sorry, will be in the next). In the meantime, get the file I'm sending you and put it in: $FREEVO_PATH/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/ where $FREEVO_PATH is where your freevo is installed (if you used the RPMs, this should be /usr/local/freev

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin - 1.3.4

2003-08-11 Thread den_RDC
Yes, it's not included in the runtime yet afaik. You'll have to download and install it manually, unless u want to wait for a new runtime release (it'll be included in the next release). Mvg den_RDC On Tuesday 05 August 2003 10:54, Jonas wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed Freevo 1.3.4, and

[Freevo-users] LCD plugin - 1.3.4

2003-08-09 Thread Jonas
Hi, I have just installed Freevo 1.3.4, and was looking forward to use the LCD plugin, but when i activate it and start Freevo I get an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "src/plugin.py", line 330, in __load_plugin__ exec('import %s' % module) File "", line 1, in ? File "src

Re: [Freevo-users] LCD plugin - 1.3.4

2003-08-05 Thread Jonas Urth Olsen
OK, it is working now. Tank you. On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:31, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > You need pylcd, that is not in the last release (sorry, will be in the > next). > > In the meantime, get the file I'm sending you and put it in: > > $FREEVO_PATH/runtime/lib/python2.2/site-packages/

[Freevo-users] LCD plugin - 1.3.4

2003-08-05 Thread Jonas
Hi, I have just installed Freevo 1.3.4, and was looking forward to use the LCD plugin, but when i activate it and start Freevo I get an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "src/plugin.py", line 330, in __load_plugin__ exec('import %s' % module) File "", line 1, in ? File "src