Felix Kronlage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:46:04PM +0100, Tobias Brink wrote: > >> Now I would like to know how what I could use for that, as I have no >> experience with such displays and don???t know what to search for. I???d >> prefer something plug and play for the USB port but I could probably >> manage to attach something to the GPIO pins with some tips. The >> serial port is of course not an option as I need it for administrative >> access. > > The 5501 has two serial ports, the standard case only brings one out > though. Since the standard case has a 'slot' you could put a serial- > attachable display into the slot and wire it to the onboard serial port. > Cables for attaching to the onboard serial port are cheap and easy to > find in Germany (Reichelt has them for example).
OK, that's probably the best solution, thanks. So after studying the data sheet of the serial Crystalfontz displays it seems that I can just write to the serial port that the display is connected to and it will show the letters. So no special driver is needed, right? Is that true for all (most) of these things? That almost sounds too easy to be true. Thanks in advance, Tobias _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
