LCDproc for Mini-box M300 w/ PicoLCD Problem

eri--

soon i will make the package public and working with picolcd.

marcusone

Awesome! Thanks! ;D

dwabraxus

any update on the ETA for this? I was trying to build it myself and ran into an issue with building the new libusb 1.12, it says freebsd is not supported. I didn't have the time to check the code. Hoping someone else has compiled it already. Any luck?

bartgrefte

"kick"

When is there gonna be a working version?

The one appearing in the packet manager of pfSense-1.2.3-2g-20091105-2039-nanobsd.img.gz doesn't send output to the display.

Cino

Glad I didn't buy that case yet… Any update?

bartgrefte

Already send ermal a private message, no response, so guess there is no update.

_igor_

Due to the fact that most packages are FreeBSD ones, you should contact tha maintainer of the package. Maybe that can help you out?

bartgrefte

Do you mean the creator of lcdproc or the pfsense package?
Since the package is no longer maintained according to an admin.

_igor_

yep. I think the maintainer of lcdproc. Good luck. I'm even interested to have it running…

bartgrefte

Since there isn't one, think I'll try contacting the creater of lcdproc itself, maybe he/she/they(?) can help.

[offtopic]Why do I keep being redirected to the subforum instead of this topic after posting a message? It's not just with this topic…. [/]

sullrich

picolcd option has been removed from the package.

bartgrefte

That's no solution…

bartgrefte

kick

I may (emphasis on may) have a working picolcd driver thanks to this website: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/lcdproc
Installed FreeBSD in a virtual computer, got the most recent port for lcdproc and then copied the picolcd driver.

Now here's the thing, I can't seem to put it in the /usr/local/lib/lcdproc folder with the rest of the drivers, to try it out, since I have pfSense embedded with a read-only FS.

Any suggestions?

edit:
I know how to get around the readonly part, added the driver, no go, didn't appear in the driverlist.
Now I've read that I should add it to the "acinclude.m4" file, haven't found it.

bartgrefte

For those who are willing to help trying to get it working, I've put the in FreeBSD compiled driver online here:
http://www.ravenslair.nl/files/picolcd.so

So far I'm still unable to get LCDProc to use it, or even have it displayed in the list of drivers at the settings page in pfSense's webinterface.

bartgrefte

I'm making progress :)

This post http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7920.msg46902.html#msg46902 put me in the right direction. First I added

                                <option><value>picolcd</value>
					<name>picolcd</name></option>

to /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.xml , that adds the picolcd driver to the driver-list in the webinterface.
After that I added

				case "picolcd":
					$config_text .= "[{$lcdproc_config['driver']}]\n";
					$config_text .= "Size={$lcdproc_config['size']}\n";
					break;

to /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.inc and I finally got an error message in the log that makes clear that LCDProc now actually sees the driver, but it needs another file to work, gonna look for that later.

bartgrefte

Got the files needed, now running into an error that says that the display can't be fount eventhough it is connected and recognized.
However, it is not hooked up (or whatever it's called) to "/dev/cuaU0" or "/dev/cuaU1" (those don't even exist ???). Instead it's connected to "uhub2" a.k.a. "/dev/usb2".

Now to figure out how to solve that…

Cino

How are you making out the the driver?

bartgrefte

Got the driver from a FreeBSD 8 install, see 1st post on this page.

But I stopped trying with pfSense 1.2.3 (for now).
Seems there's an USB "hack" necessary which already seems to be applied in pfSense 2.0 BETA.
See this topic: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,23919.msg123408.html#msg123408

bartgrefte

Made a lot of progress with picolcd, it works ;D
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,23919.msg123663.html#msg123663
(Although there are a few minor flaws, but the picolcd display works now.)

Cino

Good to hear!!