On Wednesday 22 May 2002 15:02, you wrote:
> Ok,  after working with an older pgui I decided to upgarde today, while
> compiling I see that there is support for a SED1330 LCD controller..  is
> this supporting the graphics mode on that controller?  what hardware
> configuration? through a regular PC parallel port or is this through a GPIO
> port?  anyone have any specific info?  i have about 30 of these display's
> lying around here (256X128 monocrhome with backlight)  and it would be
> pretty cool to use one with pgui.

I'm the one who wrote the support for that device when I was working
for SSV embedded systems. What I made is a kernel driver that operates
a 320x240 monocrome SED1335 in text mode. PicoGUI can set the graphics mode
with the standard ioctls, similar to the frame buffer console.

You should try to find the required kernel patch at 
http://www.ssv-embedded.de/ (the device is called trm916, the patch should be
included in the DIL/NetPC kernel RPMS). If it's not there (yet), write me 
again.

The hardware connection we used is the general purpose i/o of the AMD Elan 
processor, but parallel port should do because you only need 9 output pins
(strictly, 1 address output and 8 i/o but input is not needed for the 
PicoGUI driver, only for device detection). The kernel driver sets a lot of 
magic register values that depend on the type of your display (the sed133x is 
a rather generic controller), most importantly the resolution. You will have 
to experiment a lot with these to get any output. From there on, the rest is 
trivial.

Having the official controller documentation is a great help, but I'm not 
sure if I have it somewhere in case you need it.

Good Luck!

Arnd <><

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