- From: jan AT nerim.net (jan)
- Subject: [Lcdproc] installation problem
- Date: Thu Oct 3 13:40:02 2002
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> ok one more thing
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> when the lcd prints a black block its not fully black
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> there s a letter "P" in it
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> for example for cpu load?
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This is known as the Portishead effect.
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The caracter set in you LCD does contain that funny character
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at position 255 rather than the usual full black character.
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The new generation of CF632 and CF634 have had the same problem.
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(CF=CrystalFontz). The solution applyied in the CFontz driver is to
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either
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use another character that is as black as we want or use a custom define
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character
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that we define as full black.
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It should not be difficult to do the same change for HD44... driver,
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but I don't know if such a change is welcome in the CVS since most LCD
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do not have a inverted P. So you could fix your version of LCDd,
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or someone could help you but we need your eyes, or we really make it
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nice and include a flag in the config file to change the behaviour of
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LCDd
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when 255 is not black.
i can do some test if you want and if its not too complicated
because i m a newbie as you noticed
i dled
http://markh.de/hd44780-charset.png
and i had a look a hd44780 charmap.h
where do i start?
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