I figured that part out.. What I ment was what program or programming is involved to shoot just the text you want to the VFD and which button on the VFD issues what commands. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 3:19 PM Subject: Re: ISO RackMount Cases... > 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. > > -- > _______ Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD ecloud@bigfoot.com > (_ | |_) http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud kb7pwd@kb7pwd.ampr.org > __) | | \________________________________________________________________ > Get money for spare CPU cycles at http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5903 > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >