You can buy what I have which is an LCD unit with easy to program interface
which I plug into my printer port. Alot better than some high consuming LED
display.
It hold 40 char by 2 lines and runs on ~5V and practically runs forever..
With the printer port you can at least add buttons and stuff to acknowledge
messages and so one and the LCD units you can pick up from around the place.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 9:17 PM
To: Slug
Subject: [SLUG] XT I/O Board - how to drive showpost under Linux
Hello Sluggers
I have an XT board that drives a dual led display (jargon block - like
the old speed display on your case).
HW - how can I find out it's I/O address, IRQ, etc?
Does anyone know of any code that I might be able to mod/use to find
out it's address and later drive it.
Basically, the board was a Showpost board built by Custom Built
Computers in 1993 and it show hexadecimal codes as the system powered
up and ran it self test. The codes were particular to each
motherboard.
I'm considering using it as a generic display board of some sort, say
cpu temp, case temp, time or the hour, etc.
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