Futaba m402sd06gl + com-port

paulchen007 · Post by **paulchen007** » April 17th, 2007, 3:04 pm

hi,

i have a few problems to get the vfd connected with a usb-to-serial-converter and lcd smartie working.

it woks well with hyperterminal - each char is diplayed in the correct way.

when i start lcd smartie and select the com-port it shows a lot of $%(/".

ready for answers...

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » April 17th, 2007, 3:12 pm

How's about some details of your setup.

Version
Driver
Com port
baud rate
settings

Lots of information missing that's needed before anyone can try to answer this....

paulchen007 · Post by **paulchen007** » April 17th, 2007, 3:31 pm

here are the details:

the latest version of lcd smartie (5.4.1)
driver: all testet - none works (in other words: i don't know)
com1 with 62500 bps, 1 stopbit, 8 databits
settings: ??? what do you mean with settings ???

i still hope this are the details you want to know?

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » April 17th, 2007, 3:53 pm

62500 is not a standard baud rate and certainly not what the display is expecting.

You might need to use the test driver to get this to work, or maybe the HD44780S driver I did not long ago.

You have the docs for the display? I'd need to see these before I could guess at what driver to use....

paulchen007 · Post by **paulchen007** » April 18th, 2007, 6:16 am

the vfd is connected with a usb-serial-converter. this thing make the right (non standard) baud rate between pc and vfd. (hyperterminal works fine)

a datasheet is here:
http://www.jalcdsforum.de/misc2.php?act ... entid=1798

i guess the problem is the vfd-internal char-set.