- From: Nicolas.Saurbier AT concept04.de (Nicolas Saurbier)
- Subject: [Lcdproc] Garbage Data using HD44780
- Date: Wed Jan 5 09:33:02 2005
Hi,
I also had this problem, but on parallel wiring...
I used "Ground" of Powersupply instead of "Ground" of
the parport... no good idea! After I made another
connection GND-LCD <=3D=3D=3D=3D> GND-LPT, the garbage was gone...
Not shure, if this works for serial wiring
cheerz nic
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Subject: Re: [Lcdproc] Garbage Data using HD44780
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:58:11 -0600,
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jblight AT sceince.edu
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> Right now, when I run LCDd, I get an enormous amount of=20
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garbage data,=20
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stop the=20
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> LCDd daemon, I get something that looks like, "*& Th % anks %^or=20
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> usi#$ng Li nux" on the two lines of LCD.
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As you are on serial that looks very much like the one or any=20
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of the baud rate, data, stop or parity bits is not set=20
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correctly. Double check what you have your LCDProc driver set=20
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to and what your display is expecting, make sure they both=20
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are the same.
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> I tried to change the "DelayMult" number in the=20
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/etc/LCDd.conf file,=20
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> but I couldn't see any improvement.
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I think that is applicable only to devices connected via a=20
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parallel port.
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Cheers
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Dave.
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