LCD display drivers

[rogerdugans]

I recently got a 16x2 LCD display which I have wired up for parallel port connection and tested on my main (Win2K) rig: all done and works perfectly.

My plan however, is to use it on my server once I mod the new cube case for it and that pc is running RedHat 8- so I am looking for recommendations for good lcd controller software for Linux- perhaps sending temps, server stats and/or manually entered text to the display.

I have found a few but I haven't messed with any yet- I figure that someone here can tell me which are better than others

 

[XWRed1]

I've had a serial lcd for a few years now, I've only used lcd4linux on it the whole time I owned it. Works well enough.

There's also lcdproc, but lcd4linux works fine for me and I haven't bothered trying anything else myself.

 

[rogerdugans]

I can't get lcdproc to install the hd44780 driver and I can't get lcd4linux to run on the system.

I have sent in the question to the LCDproc mailing list and will mess with both more, but if anyone has suggestions I am all ears

 

[XWRed1]

Does lcdproc use drivers? I haven't used it, but with lcd4linux, you don't "install" drivers. It has the driver concept, but they aren't system-wide drivers for the OS. Lcd4linux just talks to the lcd over serial or parallel and has a few drivers that it uses internally so it knows how to talk to different lcds.

I would imagine lcdproc would be similar... so if you are fooling with kernel modules or something that would be why you can't get it to install the driver, I suspect.

Why wouldn't lcd4linux run?