alphacool USB display modules

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alphacool usb display modules:

description

alphacool usb display modules are developed by www.alphacool.de.

alphacool displays are available in two sizes: 200x64 240x128 and two different shapes: internal (one or two 5 1/4" slots needed) external (with display stand. display can be positioned horizontally or vertically)) the picture at the left shows the nice looking external 240x128 display that was donated by alphacool. the output was generated by multidisplay on a solaris 10 box. the code was contributed by Frank Enderle and is maintained by Frank Enderle and Wolfgang Astleitner.

some images

test image generated by testserdisp	output generated by graphlcd
output generated by lcd4linux	lcd4linux output running on an NSLU2 (architecture: arm)

connecting an alphacool USB display module:

intro

NOTA BENE!

libusb

• the vendor/production IDs for the display are: 060C/04EB (hex)
• the device-string for accessing the dislay is: 'USB:060C/04EB'

examples

configuration in lcd4linux

 Display SerDispLib {
   Driver 'serdisplib'
   Port 'USB:060C/04EB'
   Model 'ALPHACOOL'
 } 

configuration in graphlcd

 [serdisp]
 Driver=serdisp
 Device=USB:060C/04EB
 Controller=alphacool

calling test program testserdisp

 testserdisp -n alphacool -p 'USB:060C/04EB'

passing options through serdisp_init():

intro

    examples:
    
      serdisp_init(sdcd, "ALPHACOOL", "INVERT=YES");
      serdisp_init(sdcd, "ALPHACOOL", "ROTATE=90");
    

options

ranges, aliases

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