is that a no?

well, any news on what each of those jumpers do at least?

hmm... I'm thinking the board doesn't "light up" for edits

so here it is

well, well look at what I found:

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/80132e.pdf

sounds a lot like the problems I'm haveing... you remember the nack I got returned but you said the display can't do that? I wonder if one of the zilog library's double starts for something. I'll have to ...

yes that is the manual I'm refering to.

the jumper situation was discussed before here: (there is a nice picture showing what I'm looking at also)

http://www.lcdforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3095&highlight=lcd4041

however no detail of what they were used for came up. The manual only shows one ...

ok, I was frustrated yesterday so sorry about the rudeness.

but you have to keep in mind that I bought this display specificly for the i2c interface only to find that portion of the display poorly documented. And now I find out that it doesn't even comply with i2c standards...

So you can ...

ok, let me start out by saying that out of all my years of working with electronics your documentation is the worst I've seen. That's including the time I had to work off of an bablefish translation for an rareish part...

anyway here is a summery of my code:

start i2c
write 0x50
wait for ack/nack ...