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      zcline
      last edited by

      @ermal:

      AFAIK you do not need anything patched in kernel to have picolcd working!

      For the newer 4x20 model you definitely do.  It attaches to the HID driver and doesn't allow LCDProc to use it.  If you recompile your kernel with the above patch, it then attaches to the generic usb driver, and this allows the device to work with LCDProc.  I spent a week learning about it :)

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        marcusone
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        Has this been added to pfSense? Would love to have my picoLCD work with it!

        Thanks,

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          cmb
          last edited by

          @zcline:

          Any chance we could get the following changes merged?

          http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128803

          That's now in http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/pfSense-Full-Update-1.2.3-20090125-1637.tgz and newer

          @zcline:

          And the latest geode.c
          http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/geode.c

          The latest there is what is in 7.1 already.

          @zcline:

          As well as compiling the kernel with CPU_GEODE and CPU_SOEKRIS.  This allows control over the blinking LEDs on the front.

          NOTES is light on info on those.

          CPU_GEODE is for the SC1100 Geode embedded processor.  This option

          is necessary because the i8254 timecounter is toast.

          CPU_SOEKRIS enables support www.soekris.com hardware.

          Those options work with any hardware or are they specific to Geode and Soekris respectively?

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            marcusone
            last edited by

            Sweet… thank you very much!  I got my picolcd working...although I think the LCDProc package is now a bit, what's that term people like to use on here... ganked?  ... It runs, and makes a connection, however causes the package sync script (or whatever is running) to pause for sometime.  Other than that it doesn't appear to affect the use of the Firewall/System.  I will likely remove the package and manually setup the LCDd and lcdproc executables and settings.

            Thanks again... I hope this and an updated LCDProc package make it into a full release soon.

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            • dotdashD
              dotdash
              last edited by

              @cmb:

              http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/i386/geode.c
              The latest there is what is in 7.1 already.

              Version 1.11 from HEAD supports the Alix LEDs as /dev/led
              I put in a feature request a while ago. http://cvstrac.pfsense.org/tktview?tn=1784,23

              Revision 1.11: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs
              Sun Feb 10 19:14:42 2008 UTC (11 months, 2 weeks ago) by phk
              Branches: MAIN
              CVS tags: HEAD
              Diff to: previous 1.10: preferred, colored
              Changes since revision 1.10: +74 -43 lines
              Add support for PC Engines ALIX boards.

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                marcusone
                last edited by

                I just thought of another question… Are these changes also in the 2.0 ALPHA snapshots?

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                  zcline
                  last edited by

                  @cmb:

                  That's now in http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/pfSense-Full-Update-1.2.3-20090125-1637.tgz and newer

                  Awesome!

                  @cmb:

                  NOTES is light on info on those.

                  CPU_GEODE is for the SC1100 Geode embedded processor.  This option

                  is necessary because the i8254 timecounter is toast.

                  CPU_SOEKRIS enables support www.soekris.com hardware.

                  Those options work with any hardware or are they specific to Geode and Soekris respectively?

                  Actually, I am not sure, but most of the soekris hardware used to use the geode processor.  I am actually running an alix with that chip, from pc-engines.  Those two options worked to enable the LEDs, as mentioned by dotdash.

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                    cmb
                    last edited by

                    @marcusone:

                    I just thought of another question… Are these changes also in the 2.0 ALPHA snapshots?

                    Yes.

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                      xbipin
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                      any way to make the led blink on alix2c3 as i tried all commands and it still wont run the other 2 led, just the first from the left remains on when powered on and no changes after that

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                      • dotdashD
                        dotdash
                        last edited by

                        Accessing the LEDs via /dev/led makes things easier- that's why I'd like to see the geode.c from HEAD mfc'd. The 2.0 branch will have this when it gets switched to FreeBSD 8. There are several code examples of programs to access the LEDs on the Alix around- there is a quite nice one for OpenBSD, but not having the skills to adapt it, I used a patched version of the wrap reset button program from m0n0wall that I found on the m0n0wall forum. It has the ability to turn the individual LEDs on or off. A search for 'Alix LED' should point you to other posts on this.

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                          xbipin
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                          @dotdash:

                          Accessing the LEDs via /dev/led makes things easier- that's why I'd like to see the geode.c from HEAD mfc'd. The 2.0 branch will have this when it gets switched to FreeBSD 8. There are several code examples of programs to access the LEDs on the Alix around- there is a quite nice one for OpenBSD, but not having the skills to adapt it, I used a patched version of the wrap reset button program from m0n0wall that I found on the m0n0wall forum. It has the ability to turn the individual LEDs on or off. A search for 'Alix LED' should point you to other posts on this.

                          can u provide more details on the patched software for reset button?

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                            dotdash
                            last edited by

                            Here is the original post by oldman on the m0n0 forum-
                            http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,2210.msg7085.html#msg7085

                            Here is the link to an image with the binary compiled for FreeBSD 7 and with a simple script to turn on LED 2 when the box boots: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,13875.0.html

                            Please direct further questions over there, as we've gotten off-topic here.

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