LCD for 4501(was Re: [Soekris] Error LED Control from Linux userland?)

[Paul Cox]

I have been looking for quite awhile for an LCD that might fit the front 
or the back of the 4501. Unfortunately I have found nothing small 
enough, even one-line displays. Maybe someone else will have better 
luck. Alternatively, the area on top of the 4501, above the PCI card 
area is large enough for even a big fat graphical LCD.

As for interfacing a parallel LCD, it appears the eight GPIO lines 
available are not only non-contiguous bits but not in order 
(PIO5,6,7,8,21,22,11,12). Perhaps you could use the first four bits for 
data since they appear in order and just put the LCD in 4-bit mode. The 
other lines are available for R/W, Data/Instruction, CLK, etc.

Paul

RE: LCDs
 >
 > How many lines and characters are you looking for?  The Soekris box is
 > very small, and finding an LCD that fits in it will be a trick.


1 or 2 lines, 8 - 20 characters. Maybe mounting for 1 or 2 buttons. I
was envisioning the mounting to the right of the front panel LED's in
the space where a PCI card might occupy.

John