Matrix Orbital Corp

Hello,

I had my lk204-25 working great with my laptop and linux using the LCD::MatrixOrbital perl module, although i had to hack it a bit to get it to compile on newer versions of perl:

http://www.evilsoft.org/Software/LCD.txt

Anyways, I moved the setup over a new computer, the permanent home. And it seems like now all I get is strange chars on the screen instead of the normal text. I have noticed that sometimes if I fire up "LCDProc" first and then start my script it seems to work ok. I am wondering if this is a character encoding issue or if my serial port needs to be initialized somehow.

Hi ipl31,

Thank you for your post.

The first thing to check when garbled text come up on the screen is the baud rate. Check that the baud rate is not changed somehow on your script.

I have set the speed with setserial and it shows this:

stty -F /dev/ttyS1

speed 19200 baud; line = 0;

min = 1; time = 3;

-brkint -icrnl -imaxbel

-opost

-isig -icanon -iexten -echo


Do I need to change one of the other settings?

Hi ipl31,

I am not familiar with linux, but what I would like for you to check are the following:

baud = 19200
stop bit = 1
parity = none
flow control = none

Best Regards,