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+ | ====== Case and LCD ====== | ||
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+ | ===== Network LED Hack ===== | ||
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+ | I don't use a harddrive in Ding instead everything comes from the network. Unfortunatly this makes a HDD LED pretty much useless. But I wanted some [[http:// | ||
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+ | I did the soldering at the backside and arranged the cable through a hole in the NIC. I attached two metal pins at the end of the wire and isolateted the solder joint with shrink wrap. Thes pins fit very well in the LED's connector plug. | ||
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+ | ===== Enabling the LCD ===== | ||
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+ | The VFD display is a Samsung 16T202DA and is connected via Parallell Port. | ||
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+ | To get it work in linux is easy. First make sure you disable all special features of the parallel port like ESP and stuff in your Motherboards Bios. Then get LCDproc - here is the debian way to do it: | ||
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+ | #> apt-get install lcdproc | ||
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+ | LCDproc is a Client/ | ||
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+ | < | ||
+ | [server] | ||
+ | Driver=HD44780 | ||
+ | Bind=127.0.0.1 | ||
+ | Port=13666 | ||
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+ | [HD44780] | ||
+ | Port=0x378 | ||
+ | ConnectionType=winamp | ||
+ | Size=16x2 | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | ==== XMMS LCD plugin ==== | ||
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+ | For using the display with [[http:// | ||
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+ | To install copy '' | ||
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+ | You can see the display with the XMMS plugin in action on the picture on the right. My digicam is a little bit too slow to catch the scrolling title. In the lower left corner you can see the red network activity LED. | ||
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+ | ======MANTIS ========== | ||
+ | What does that mean?? |
ding/caselcd.txt · Last modified: 2008/06/04 19:35 by ach