Jack, Can you provide a link to the monitor you are referring to. I looked at the Sharp web site (http://www.sharpusa.com) and was not able to find an 8.4" monitor other than those using standard VGA, etc. inputs, for which no additional drivers are necessary.
Alternately, I recently checked into head an interface which supports 4 line x 20 character displays such as those available from matrix orbital (http://www.matrixorbital.com/index.php?cName=lcd-mx4-series) and Crystalfontz (http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/index-usb.html). The interface is dependent upon lcdproc, which provides drivers for these and many other LCD displays. It is certainly not ready for prime time, but you can look at it by using the ncurses interface (I can send you the configuration if necessary). You will need to do a checkout and compile of head, since that is the only place it currently exists. Then either start LCDd (LCDProc Daemon, see lcdproc instructions) manually or put it into the startup script. Lastly, in one of your hal files, add the following line: loadusr emclcd And then run EMC normally. It is still in its early stages, so there is some other information I would need to supply, like key mappings. In a 4 line x 20 character display it provides information such as the current program loaded, dynamic X, Y, Z positions, progress bar, run, pause / resume, stop, step, etc. functions, as well as a menuing system for accessing other parameters and settings. Let me know if this is of interest to you and I can provide additional information. Regards, Eric > I've been looking for a small flat panel monitor for mounting > on my machine control panel for my EMC Bridgeport controller. > Sharp has an > 8.4 inch LCD panel that would be perfect except a driver or > interface board would be needed to interface with it. I > haven't been able to find any boards. Does anyone know of > any or have any suggestions for finding a small flat panel at > a reasonable cost? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
