| 2012-04-02 21:11:50 |
Burkart Lingner |
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Neither package lcdproc nor lcdproc-extra-drivers provides support for the VFD mdm166a even though there is support for it in the source code and `man LCDd` lists it as one of the supported drivers.
However, it's probably hard to support this display as its driver code requires libhid which is not available for Ubuntu anymore, starting with 10.10. Therefore it would most likely require a rewritten driver using e.g. libusb instead.
Nevertheless I think it would be a good idea to let the user know of displays Ubuntu doesn't support, at the very least by not listing them in the man page as supported. Looking at some of the other bugs reported for this package, it seems like this problem doesn't affect the mdm166a driver alone. |
Neither package lcdproc nor lcdproc-extra-drivers provides support for the VFD mdm166a even though there is support for it in the source code and `man LCDd` lists it as one of the supported drivers.
However, it's probably hard to support this display as its driver code requires libhid which is not available for Ubuntu anymore, starting with 10.10. Therefore it would most likely require a rewritten driver using e.g. libusb instead.
Nevertheless I think it would be a good idea to let the user know of displays Ubuntu doesn't support, at the very least by not listing them in the man page as supported. Looking at some of the other bugs reported for this package, it seems like this problem doesn't affect the mdm166a driver alone.
Almost forgot, this is for Ubuntu 11.10 and lcdproc + lcdproc-extra-drivers version 0.5.4-6. |
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