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====== NEWS ======

===== 2009-01-11 LCD4Linux-0.11.0 soon to be released =====

Due to being very busy with building a house for my family, there's been few progress with lcd4linux in the last year. The last release was 0.10.0-RC2, a release candidate, but as its more than a year old, and ther were a lot of enhancements in the meantime, I decided to skip 0.10.0 completely and release 0.11.0

These are the major changes since 0.10.0:

  * new drivers: [[:lcd4linux:driver_cwlinux|CwLinux]] CW12832, [[:lcd4linux:driver_phanderson]] serial-to-HD44780 adapter boards, [[:lcd4linux:driver_ula_200|ULA200]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_d4d|4D Systems]] serial displays, [[:lcd4linux:driver_irlcd]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_picolcd|picoLCD Graphic]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_st2205]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_pertelian]]
  * new plugins: [[:lcd4linux:plugin_netinfo|netinfo]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_netdev|netdev]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_w1retap|w1retap]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_hddtemp|hddtemp]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_time|strftime_tz]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_fifo|FIFO]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_asterisk|asterisk]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_button_exec|button_exec]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_gps|gps]]
  * [[:lcd4linux:Evaluator]] enhancements: string relational operators (eq, ne, gt, ge, lt, le), short circuit evaluation
  * other enhancements: update charset for [[:lcd4linux:driver_crystalfontz]] Model 632 and 634, keypad support for lcm162, pingpong scrolling, automatic marquee scrolling, buttons for [[:lcd4linux:driver_x11]] driver, major [[:lcd4linux:plugin_mpd|MPD]] enhancements

Have fun!

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===== 2007-04-30 LCD4Linux-0.10.1-RC2 released =====

Today I put together the second Release Cadidate of LCD4Linux-0.10.1. You can download it [[:lcd4linux:Download|here]]. If you are using Subversion, you can use the branch //0.10.1//.

There are only few changes since 0.10.1-RC1:

  * [[:lcd4linux:widget_bar]] nasty typo fixed
  * compilation with kernel 2.6.21 fixed
  * [[:lcd4linux:plugin_mpd]] new functions and some fixes
  * [[:lcd4linux:driver_cwlinux]] keypad and firmware support
  * [[:lcd4linux:plugin_proc_stat]] new subfields iowait, irq and softirq for Kernel 2.6 added
  * [[:lcd4linux:plugin_file]] bug with empty files fixed
  * [[:lcd4linux:driver_crystalfontz]] keypad support for 631 fixed
  * [[:lcd4linux:driver_picolcd]] linker error fixed
  * [[:lcd4linux:plugin_imon]] new functions imon::quantity and imon::status
  * compiler warnings on x86_64 fixed
  * [[:lcd4linux:plugin_string]] strstr() and substr() added.

Any feedback on this release candidate is welcome!

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===== 2007-02-24 LCD4Linux-0.10.1-RC1 released =====

Thanks to Martin Hejl (who kicked me in the ass) I put together the first Release Cadidate of LCD4Linux-0.10.1. You can download it [[:lcd4linux:Download|here]]. If you are using Subversion, a branch called //0.10.1// has been created.

Here's a short (and probably incomplete) list of changes since 0.10.0:

  * [[:lcd4linux:widget_gpo|GPO]]'s are back!
  * new drivers: [[:lcd4linux:driver_wincornixdorf]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_lph7508]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_crystalfontz|Crystalfontz CF635]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_lui|LUIse]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_lcd2usb]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_ledmatrix]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_usbhub]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_g-15|Logitech G-15]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_picolcd]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_ea232graphic|Electronic Assembly]]
  * updated drivers: [[:lcd4linux:driver_trefon]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_crystalfontz]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_bwct]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_lcd-linux]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_serdisplib]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_m50530]], [[:lcd4linux:driver_t6963]]
  * new widgets: [[:lcd4linux:widget_image|Image]], [[:lcd4linux:widget_timer|Timer]], [[:lcd4linux:widget_keypad|Keypad]], [[:lcd4linux:widget_gpo|GPO]]
  * new plugins: [[:lcd4linux:plugin_file|file]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_mpd|mpd]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_string|string::strupper()]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_kvv|KVV]], [[:lcd4linux:plugin_iconv|iconv]]
  * //dynamic properties// for most widgets (evaluated at runtime)
  * **bold** font for graphic displays
  * [[:lcd4linux:Layout|Layers]]
  * graphic subsystem changed to full-color RGBA
  * [[:lcd4linux:driver_hd44780]] power supply from parport
  * lots of minor fixes and enhancements

Any feedback on this release candidate is welcome!

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===== 2007-01-14 LCD4Linux switched from CVS@!SourceForge to SVN@Trac =====

Finally I decided to migrate the whole repository (with history! thanks to [[http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor|Tailor]] and Sam!) from the SourceForge CVS repository to a Subversion repository managed by Trac. Now the Source Browser and Time Line are filled with life, and I think this looks great!

Please have a look at the [[:lcd4linux:Download|Download page]] for details on how to use the subversion repository!

Note that the CVS repository on SourceForge will **not** be updated any longer; I'm looking forward to close it somehow...

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===== 2006-08-06 size DOES matter! =====

{{:lcd4linux:ledmatrix-splash.jpg}}

Till Harbaum (the guy behind [[:lcd4linux:driver_lcd2usb|LCD2USB]]) developed a **real big** LED display called [[http://www.harbaum.org/till/ledmatrix|LEDMATRIX]], and added [[:lcd4linux:driver_ledmatrix|support]] for it to LCD4Linux. Now, that's what I call a //huge display// :-)

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===== 2006-06-26 CVS hostname on SourceForge changed! =====

The [[http://sourceforge.net|SourceForge]] Team did rearrange their CVS servers lately, so the hostname for (anonymous and developer) CVS access did change! The correct CVS hostname for lcd4linux is **lcd4linux.cvs.sourceforge.net**. See the [[Download|download page]] for details. 

Edit 2007-01-14: Forget about that. We switched to Subversion, and the repository is managed by Trac. See the [[:lcd4linux:Download|download page]] for details.

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===== 2006-02-26 MÃ¤usekino =====

{{:lcd4linux:includ.jpg}}

Thanks to Wolfgang Astleitner and his great [[http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net|serdisplib]] library, LCD4Linux runs on the graphic display made by [[http://www.includ.de|INCLUD]], which has been described in the german computer magazine [[http://www.heise.de/ct|c't]].

Some more preview pictures can be found [[http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/preview/|here]].

Since 2006-04-12 the hardware page for c't includ usb display are added to the serdislib. [[http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/ser/usb_ctinclud.html|c't includ usb display]] at the serdisplib Page.

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===== 2006-01-26 Get rid of your printer port adapter now! =====

{{:lcd4linux:lcd2usb.jpg}}

Till Harbaum developed a cheap (about 5 to 10 Euros without display and pcb) do-it-yourself [[http://www.harbaum.org/till/lcd2usb|USB adapter]] for HD44780-based displays, and wrote a [[:lcd4linux:driver_lcd2usb|LCD4Linux driver]]. Amazing!

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===== 2006-01-05 LCD4Linux goes graphic! =====

Thanks to Theo Schneider, we got a [[:lcd4linux:driver_lui|driver]] for these really nice displays from [[http://tilofranz.net/lcdshop/|LCDShop24]] using the **LCD-USB-Interface** by [[http://wallbraun-electronics.de|Wallbraun Electronics]].

{{:lcd4linux:lui1micro.jpg}}

This driver supports loading of a background image, that's why the result looks //that cool//.

It appears that these displays are currently not available.

" By the electrical and electronics equipment law and thereby, entered into force since March 06
, we saw ourselves to connected disproportionately high costs
unfortunately to adjust forced the production and the selling of the diagram displays for the time being."

This is a real shame.

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===== 2005-12-19 GPO's are back! =====

Support for GPO's (General Purpose Output's) has been added to lcd4linux again. At the time of writing this, only the [[:lcd4linux:driver_hd44780|HD44780]] and [[:lcd4linux:driver_lph7508|LPH7508]] drivers have support for GPO's, but the framework is done, and other drivers will follow soon!

GPO's are treated as a special form of [[:lcd4linux:widget_gpo|widgets]] and are mapped in the [[:lcd4linux:Layout|layout]] section.

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===== 2005-10-26 LCD4Linux arrived in Debian =====

Thanks to Norbert Tretkowski there's a lcd4linux package in the official debian unstable repository.

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/lcd4linux

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===== 2005-09-14 ANNOUNCE: David =====

I proudly announce the birth of David, our first child, on 9. September 2005.

{{:lcd4linux:david.jpg}}

I'm a little bit disappointed that he hasn't got a display, not even a small one :-)

He's a geek baby, so he already set up his own homepage: http://home.pages.at/david05

I'm afraid he will eat up all my spare time in the next weeks, so there will be not too much time left for lcd4linux :-(

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===== 2005-06-11 LCD4Linux-0.10.0 released =====

A good day starts with a new release...

changes between 0.9.* and 0.10.0:
  * nearly everything!

changes between 0.10.0-RC1 and 0.10.0:

  * new driver 'LCDTerm'
  * new driver 'LCD-Linux'
  * new driver 'SimpleLCD'
  * new driver 'Trefon'
  * new driver 'serdisplib'
  * new plugin 'statfs'
  * new plugin 'python'
  * new functions 'min()' and 'max()'
  * HD44780 supports multiple displays
  * HD44780 software-controlled backlight
  * M50530 supports displays with different internal layout
  * plugins initialize on first-use (no more i2c and mysql warnings on startup)
  * Evaluator speedup

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===== 2005-05-13 LCD4Linux supports serdisplib =====

There's a new driver called //serdisplib// which uses the great [[http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net|serdisplib]] library from Wolfgang Astleitner to control various displays.

//serdisplib// is (or was) a library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers.\\

Starting with version 1.95, this limitation is no longer true because support was extended to parallel driven displays. anyhow: the name 'serdisplib' will not change.

The //serial// in //serial display// characterises the way of how the data is transferred to the display controller: data is sent bit by bit using a single input line. Several (few) other lines are controlling things like timing (clock), data or command, ...

supported displays amongst others are:

  * Nokia 3210, 3310, 3315, 3330, 3350, 3410, 5110, 5120, 5130, 5160, 6110, 6150, 6210, 7110
  * Ericsson A1018, T20, T28, T29
  * SED 133x series
  * SED 153x series (ALPS LSU7S1011A, Optrex 323)
  * NEC 21a pager (skyper)
  * Toshiba T6963

//kudos to Wolfgang for this great piece of software!//

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===== 2005-04-23 LCD4Linux runs on mipsel! =====

Thanks to Sebastian, lcd4linux compiles and runs on MIPS embedded linux!

{{:lcd4linux:mipsel-med.jpg}}

What you see [[https://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/attachment/wiki/News/mipsel-big.jpg|here]] is a Asus WLAN-Harddisk, where the firmware has been replaced with linux. LCD4Linux controls a [[BWCT|BWCT]] USB display.

This is cool stuff, isn't it?

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===== 2005-01-09 LCD4Linux-0.10.0-RC1 released =====

After quite a long time, there's a new release of LCD4Linux. This code has been stable for nearly a year now, but lacked documentation. For there's been a fundamental redesign, I didn't release without docs. But now, as we have the wiki, documenting is that easy that I decided to release a candidate (to put some pressure on us developers :-)

The release is avaliable from the Sourceforge Files Page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1310

Please test and enjoy!

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===== 2005-01-09 New LCD4Linux Homepage announced =====

Today I changed the homepage links on SourceForge and Freshmeat, and announced the new Homepage on lcd4linux-users. So the Wiki goes online!

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===== 2004-09-24 Support for BWCT USB LCD finished =====

The driver is finished, works fine, and is available from CVS. Hey, libusb programming is that easy!

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===== 2004-09-18 Upcoming support for Nexcom blade servers =====

{{:lcd4linux:nexcom.jpg}}

[[http://www.open.ch/|open systems ag]] from switzerland donated such a [[http://www.nexcom.com.tw/|Nexcom]] machine equipped with a small 16x2 display, and a little keypad with four keys. Thanks a lot!

The display is already working with a slightly modified HD44780 driver, and I can poll for keypresses. This means LCD4Linux will soon support keypads!

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===== 2004-09-17 New USB to HD44780 Interfaces =====

The german company [[http://www.bwct.de/|BWCT]] produces a [[http://www.bwct.de/lcd.html|cute little interface board]] to connect a standard HD44780 display to the USB bus. I mailed them today, got an answer immediately, and a development sample is on its way to me. So LCD4Linux will support their interfaces very soon!

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===== 2004-06-22 Support for the new CompactTerminals from Beckmann+Egle =====

I just received a complete [[http://www.bue.de/produkte-und-dienstleistungen/ct.html|CompactTerminals]] set donated by [[http://www.bue.de/|Beckmann+Egle]], including a 20x4 Display, a I/O module, a keyboard module, and a LAN module! Thank you guys! \\

Especially the LAN module is //really cool// stuff: I can connect a display via ethernet, and watch the status of my server (which is in another room). This is exactly what I've been looking for! \\

These displays and the extension modules will soon be supported by the CVS version, which will be released as 0.10 as soon as we finished the documentation.

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===== 2004-05-09 Slides from my LCD4Linux presentation on the //Grazer LinuxTage 04// available =====

I just uploaded the (german language) slides, they are available for [[http://www.openoffice.org|OpenOffice]] Impress or as PDF.

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===== 2004-04-08 LCD4Linux will be present on Grazer LinuxTage 04 =====

I will give a talk about LCD4Linux on Saturday, May 08 2004, on the [[http://www.linuxtage.at/|Grazer LinuxTage 04]]. Details about the talk can be found at http://www.linuxtage.at/?id=39

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===== 2003-12-09 Some impressions from LinuxDay.at =====

[[http://lcd4linux.sourceforge.net/LinuxDay2003/main.html|Here]] you can find some photos from lcd4linux at the [[http://www.linuxday.at/|LinuxDay 03]] in Dornbirn/Austria.\\

Additional Photos can be found on the [[http://fotos2003.linuxday.org/|LinuxDay Homepage]], on the [[http://www.fli4l.de/gallery/linuxday_2003|fli4l Gallery]] and on [[http://www.linuxprinting.org/till/linuxdayvorarlberg2003/photos|Till Kamppeter's]] page.

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===== 2003-10-27 lcd4linux binary packages for SuSE Linux =====

Thanks to Thomas Siedentopf from [[http://www.suse.de/|SuSE]] in Nuremberg, lcd4linux is available as binary packages for different SuSE distributions (currently 8.1, 8.2 and the brand-new 9.0)

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===== 2003-09-27 lcd4linux will be present on LinuxDay 03 =====

Stefan Krister from the [[http://www.fli4l.org/|fli4l]]/[[http://www.eisfair.org/|eisfair]] team invited me to the [[http://www.linuxday.at/|LinuxDay 03]] in Dornbirn/Austria on Nov 15 2003. I will be present at the fli4l/eisfar stand, showing some displays, talking to a lot of people, and having a good time! I'd be glad to meet you there!

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===== 2003-09-19 lcd4linux 0.9.11 released =====

This release includes some major enhancements:

  * Icons! Animations! Heartbeat!
  * HD44780 4-bit-mode (thanks to Martin Hejl)
  * HD44780 improved timings (thanks to Ole Dreessen)
  * double-buffering for all drivers (should improve performance and lower CPU usage a lot!)

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===== 2003-09-11 lcd4linux has icons! =====

{{:lcd4linux:icons1.gif}}
{{:lcd4linux:icons2.gif}}


Think of animations, icons, heartbeat, ....\\

Note that these animated GIF's are not a fake! lcd4linux can produce exactly the above output on your display! In fact, these images were created with lcd4linux's PNG driver.\\

This code will be released real soon now (tm), therefore I'm looking for beta testers for the code in the CVS!

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===== 2003-08-14 lcd4linux 0.9.10 released =====

This release includes small bugfixes and minor enhancements:

  * uClibc compatibility (thanks to Luis F. Correia)
  * lcd4linux creates and handles its own PID file
  * some compiler warnings have been cleaned up

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===== 2003-07-30 lcd4linux 0.9.9 released =====

finally...!

Note that the version numbering scheme changed: This is lcd4linux 0.9.9 (instead of 0.99), the next release will be 0.9.10.

Changes in 0.9.9:

  * new version number scheme
  * moved documentation to web page
  * virtual rows, scrolling
  * DVB client
  * parallel port abstraction
  * gcc3 issues
  * sensors factor and offset

New drivers in 0.9.9:

  * Mitsubishi M50530
  * [[http://www.usblcd.de|USBLCD]]
  * Toshiba T6963
  * [[http://www.matrixorbital.com|MatrixOrbital]] LK202
  * [[http://www.cwlinux.com|Cwlinux]] CW12232 CW1602

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===== 2001-09-04 lcd4linux 0.98 released =====

more than a year after 0.97, there is a new release!

  * lots of fixed bugs
  * improved signal handling
  * uses syslog
  * supports GPO's (general purpose outputs, e.g. to connect a LED)
  * improved delay loop (no more calibration necessary)
  * PNG generation
  * curses-based text driver
  * plugins: the output of up to 9 external programs can be displayed
  * ISDN online/offline status can be displayed with a LED
  * APM support
  * mail and news client (local mbox, POP, IMAP, NNTP)
  * new configure option --with-drivers=<list>
  * seti@home client
  * simple web-server driver
  * supports new (kernel 2.4) ppdev to access parallel port with ioctl()

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===== 2000-08-07 lcd4linux 0.97 released! =====

After quite a long time, I finally managed to release 0.97, which contains a lot of improvements:

   * [[http://www.crystalfontz.com|CrystalFontz]] driver: thanks to Herbert Rosmanith!
   * HD44780-driver: thanks to myself :-)
   * support for PPP throughput.
   * support for Kernel 2.4: disc I/O is determined correctly, and real troughput (bytes, not only packets!) is reported for network interfaces.

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===== 2000-04-03 lcd4linux 0.96 with KDE integration released! =====

  * lcd4linux can now swallow on the K Panel! See README.KDE for details.
  * This release should fix some of the bugs of the X11 driver.
  * You can overwrite entries from the config file by using the command line option '-c key=value'
  * Gaps can have a size of -1, which means that they use the size of a pixel.

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===== 2000-03-28 lcd4linux 0.95 released! =====

  * This is the first release with a driver for the X Window System.
  * The X11-Driver look great, needs only very low cpu time and bandwidth. You will get a smooth display even over a 64kbit ISDN line!
  * There's also a raster driver which produces PPM output.
  * Many thanks to Herbert Rosmanith for his great work!