Lcd
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I have a new fun project. Benny showed me an article from a geek who uses his digital picture frame as USB-connected monitor using LCD4Linux. Here I am trying to do the same with Ubuntu x86_32.
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Build dpfhack
You will need dpfhack to change the picture frame's firmware
- install some dependencies, so open a console and enter
sudo apt-get install libtool automake autoconf zlib1g-dev libssl-dev python-dev libc6 libusb-dev libibus-1.0-dev subversion libgd2-noxpm-dev libgd2-noxpm
- make the sdcc compiler work
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sdcc/sdcc-libraries_2.9.0-5_all.deb wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sdcc/sdcc_2.9.0-5_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i sdcc-libraries_2.9.0-5_all.deb sudo dpkg -i sdcc_2.9.0-5_i386.deb
- download and build dpfhack
wget http://tech.section5.ch/files/dpfhack-0.1alpha.tgz tar -xvzf dpfhack-0.1alpha.tgz cd dpf/src make
Build lcd4linux
- get a special version of lcd4linux
cd .. wget http://tech.section5.ch/files/dpf-lcd4linux.tgz tar -xvzf dpf-lcd4linux.tgz
- edit build-dpf-lcd4linux.sh, change the line
./configure --with-drivers=DPF
to
./configure --with-drivers='DPF' --with-plugins='all,!dbus,!mpris_dbus'
- build and install the special version of lcd4linux
./build-dpf-lcd4linux.sh ../src/dpflib/ cd lcd4linux sudo make install
Replace firmware
Now it's time to overwrite the digital picture frame's firmware. First let's find out what device the picture frame is. In dmesg I find a line containing
Attached scsi generic sg5 type 5
So I do
cd ../src sudo python hackit.py /dev/sg5
Configure lcd4linux
Fill /etc/lcd4linux, e.g. with
Display dpf { Driver 'DPF' Port 'usb0' Font '6x8' Foreground 'ffffff' Background '000000' Basecolor '000066' } Widget FIRST { class 'Text' expression 'www.Geekparadise.de' width 54 align 'L' update 5000 Background 'ffffff' Foreground '000000' } Display 'DPF' Layout Dockstar{ Row01.Col01 'FIRST' } Layout 'Dockstar'
Display something
Now unplug and plug in again the display. Then call lcd4linux:
sudo lcd4linux
And you will see output on the digital picture frame :)