Firebox LCD Driver for LCDProc

dhoffman98

I am not a driver coder, this might be the wrong way, but I have compiled a sdeclcd.so that has "no timeout" on a i386 FreeBSD 10.3 virtual machine.

So far it works great on my x750e.

All I did was edit "sdeclcd.c" and replace "BACKLIGHT_OFF" to "BACKLIGHT_ON" on lines 650 and 676

Hope this works for you

You can grab it here : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so or as an attachment to this post

Feel free to edit my post if the method I haved used is not the proper way to remove that timeout.

That made LCDProc fail on startup. If I went into the services status, it showed LCDproc not started, and when I tried to start, it just failed.

Error in the system log: Could not open driver module /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/sdeclcd.so: /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/sdeclcd.so: unsupported file layout

But I'm happy that you tried! Thank you for that.

stephenw10

On 32bit? ;)

networkBob

@vizi0n:

I am not a driver coder, this might be the wrong way, but I have compiled a sdeclcd.so that has "no timeout" on a i386 FreeBSD 10.3 virtual machine.

So far it works great on my x750e.

All I did was edit "sdeclcd.c" and replace "BACKLIGHT_OFF" to "BACKLIGHT_ON" on lines 650 and 676

Hope this works for you

You can grab it here : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so or as an attachment to this post

Feel free to edit my post if the method I haved used is not the proper way to remove that timeout.

Thank you so much for the effort, vizi0n. However, this did not work on my 64-bit XTM515 box.

As noted by dhoffman98, LCDproc failed to start after replacing the release sdeclcd.so file with your modified version. Maybe it has to do with the 64-bit architecture vs 32-bit. I do not possess the required knowledge to know.

I tried messing around with online C compilers but got super frustrated trying to find a way to compile to a .so file. It seems to me that eliminating the timeout would be more complicated than, say, increasing the timeout from 30 seconds to 300,000 seconds, although that would add a tiny amount of processor overhead.

stephenw10

Yes, you need a 64bit driver to run in 64bit. That error is what you see when you try to load a 32bit driver.

Steve

vizi0n

Yes this driver is for 32 bit, I can recompile it for 64 bit later tonight for you fancy 64 bit folks :P

vizi0n

I have updated my previous post with both drivers as separate attachments

32 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.32bit.zip
64 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.64bit.zip

Please confirm if the 64 bit works as I have no way to test it. Also make sure that you run "chmod +x sdeclcd.so" to make it executable

networkBob

Thank you, vizi0n. That worked on my XTM515 box (running 2.3.4 amd64)! Now the backlight stays on! I am happy and frankly kinda giddy. I appreciate your help.

Cheers

vizi0n

@networkBob:

Thank you, vizi0n. That worked on my XTM515 box (running 2.3.4 amd64)! Now the backlight stays on! I am happy and frankly kinda giddy. I appreciate your help.

Cheers

You're welcome

whitexp

hi guys ,
offtopic :

any lcd recomend for work with pfsense ?

thanks .

StlCardsFanJR

@vizi0n:

I have updated my previous post with both drivers as separate attachments

32 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.32bit.zip
64 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.64bit.zip

Please confirm if the 64 bit works as I have no way to test it. Also make sure that you run "chmod +x sdeclcd.so" to make it executable

I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question. I opened the file "sdeclcd.so.64bit.zip" and noticed the "__MACOSX" folder. I don't have a Mac.

vizi0n

I don't have a Mac.

I do haha. Sorry, I did not notice that it had added this folder. I thought I had zipped it on my VM. You only need the .so file inside the zip

EDIT: I have updated both zip files to remove the __MACOSX folder

maksimred

@networkBob:

Thank you, vizi0n. That worked on my XTM515 box (running 2.3.4 amd64)! Now the backlight stays on! I am happy and frankly kinda giddy. I appreciate your help.

Cheers

Hi, How did you manage to get pfsense loaded on your XTM 515? I have a XTM 535 and want to load pfsense, but no write up is available. From what I understand 515 and 535 have the same internals, only software locked by watchguard.

stephenw10

Replied in the XTM 5 thread.

Please don't double post. This thread is specifically for questions about the LCD driver. And it's included upstream in LCDproc now anyway.

Steve

networkBob

@vizi0n:

I have updated my previous post with both drivers as separate attachments

32 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.32bit.zip
64 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.64bit.zip

Please confirm if the 64 bit works as I have no way to test it. Also make sure that you run "chmod +x sdeclcd.so" to make it executable

Oh dang the backlight turns off now after pfSense 2.4.1 update. Any ideas? Could this be a file signing issue?

Cheers

vizi0n

@networkBob:

@vizi0n:

I have updated my previous post with both drivers as separate attachments

32 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.32bit.zip
64 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.64bit.zip

Please confirm if the 64 bit works as I have no way to test it. Also make sure that you run "chmod +x sdeclcd.so" to make it executable

Oh dang the backlight turns off now after pfSense 2.4.1 update. Any ideas? Could this be a file signing issue?

Cheers

Even after reuploading the file?

32-bit support has been deprecated and removed – There are no images available for 32-bit (x86/i386) Intel architecture systems

Awww its the end for the updates on my x750e :(

networkBob

Yes, I tried that. I also tried:
1. deleting the sdeclcd.so file and replacing with fresh downloaded copy
2. uninstalling LCDProc package and reinstalling
3. rebooting

Maybe I missed something, or maybe 2.4.1 added a file signing feature for security? I'll keep trying…

vizi0n

Aaah 2.4 is using FreeBSD 11, mine were compiled on 10.3

I will create new ones

vizi0n

Can you try this one ?

http://vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.freebsd11.zip

networkBob

Thank you so much, Vizi0n. I can confirm that your new file works on pfSense 2.4.1. This new modified LCDproc sdecled.so file keeps the LCD backlight powered on forever. These are the steps I used:

1) stop the LCDproc service
2) open console shell
3) mv /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/sdeclcd.so /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/sdeclcd.so.bak
4) fetch http://vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.freebsd11.zip
5) unzip sdeclcd.so.freebsd11.zip
6) cp sdeclcd.so /usr/local/lib/lcdproc
7) chmod +x sdeclcd.so

Cheers

vizi0n

@networkBob:

Thank you so much, Vizi0n. I can confirm that your new file works on pfSense 2.4.1. This new modified LCDproc sdecled.so file keeps the LCD backlight powered on forever.

You're welcome!

I have updated my previous post with the download links and attachments