On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:09:00PM -0700, Don Harrop wrote:
> What does it take to make the VFD functional under linux?

If it's one from Matrix Orbital, you connect it to a serial port.

I'm working on homebrewing an LED dot-matrix display too.  I
found some 1x8-character matrix displays on ebay, and an 8051 board
which I should be able to program to control them based on input
from the serial port.

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