I received the Noritake display, unfortunately the grayscale one is discontinued. It's too big for my case! I didn't pay close enough attention, it's about 10mm too wide. It's big and beautiful, there is something indeed special about a VFD display. The drivers are working and the display is running at 30 fps, the max speed allowed by the VFD. I made some optimizations to the GPIO driver and it actually doesn't use much CPU at all bit-banging the parallel bus over USB. I also received that UM232H-B adapter board in the picture above and it works great too.
No grayscale is a bit of an issue though, because the icons and fonts of Jivelite aren't optimized for it. For reference the old VFD Squeezebox units (Boom, Transporter) do not have grayscale either and they look good. So that's just a matter of adapting Jivelite, but I don't know if I'm up for at as I don't plan to use the VFD as it won't fit... I think I'll go with the OLED as it looks good and fits nicely. Does anyone else have ideas for a display that would work? To be honest the latest fad of full color, normal aspect ratio (like the Touch) don't seem as "classy" to me as the Boom style display. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rpress's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31544 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98960 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
