Hi, thanks for the note. As a matter of fact, there is some basic support for the Matrix Orbital displays. I wrote a basic driver which lets you do some simple stuff through a /proc file. It might be more flexible to access the device more directly by using the /dev interface to the I2C bus, though, if you want more control. Anyways, yes, the support is there. btw-I think using the I2C bus is a little cleaner than using a serial interface for the displays, imho. Phil On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:10:06AM +0200, PE1SBH wrote: > Hi there, I admire your programming skills and I'm heavily busy remoddeling mobo's (now my dual abit bp6 board). I saw the I2C architecture in it, and thought.. what?? Why not using that?? So I have some thought about adressing a LCD module via I2C bus. Can you support I2C displays as Matroxorb? And just plain displays which are connected (4bits/8bits) to the I2C bus with an I2C->par converter such as (for example) philips PCF8576? I2C adressing is a much improvement above parallel, speed and int load a re just superior to par/ser adressing. When more people starting to realize that (perhaps you can support/mention it on your page?), much people will do it that (I2C) way because they want to save cpu cycles :-) > > Thanks for all, you're a great motivator to get me back on developing more (computer based) hardware. > > Sencerely, > Alex. -- Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A
