[ubuntu-uk] My VFD- A little help please?

[Rob Beard]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Javad Ayaz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am previously posted about VFD problems...and here is another!!! 
>> apologies :)
>>
>> I was wondering if someone could right up instructions in "plain 
>> english"  from this site
>>
>> http://venky.ws/projects/imon/
>>
>> Im trying to install it but im getting stuck with the how to on this 
>> as im totally illetrate in all this tech stuff!!
>>
>> Hopefully this will help someone else as well as lots of people are 
>> having the same problem!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Javad
>>
> 
> Well according to the web site, support is included in LIRC from 0.7.1. 
>  I just installed Lirc and it's installed 0.8.2.
> 
> To install Lirc I used the following command from a terminal window:
> 
> sudo apt-get install lirc
> 
> You then have to choose the remote type, there are about 5 different 
> SoundMon devices on there.  Not sure which one is the right one.  If you 
> don't get the right one try the following command to choose another one...
> 
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
> 
> Hope this gives you a bit more to go on.
> 
> Rob
> 

Sorry, looked on the site a bit more, for the LCD component you might 
need to install LCDproc by using the following command:

sudo apt-get install lcdproc

Ta,

Rob