LCDs

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Sat Jan 23 12:39:17 1999

>
> >lcdproc 0.4pre1 (and up) has a joystick driver for buttons not attached
> >to the LCD module. I have been frantically looking for my Gravis joypad
> >to no avail. :-(
>
> Hrmmm? OK, I'll show my lack of non-UNIX PC knowledge here, what does a
> Gravis Joypad connect to, and would one work on a Alpha Multia?

A standard PeeCee joystick port - 15 pins. If the Alpha Multia had a
sound card or an ISA multi I/O, you'd be set, if the Intel code to
bang on the port worked.

> The code is in C, right?

lcdproc is written in C. I was contemplating just some basic string
printing stuff for RT, not lcdproc.

> ...I imagine that it's heavily involved with the Linux /proc filesystem.

Yes it is. :-( I'm attempting to unhose that dependency with Solaris.

> I think for RSX or RSTS it would be cool just to have it show how many
> users are currently online and that the system is running. Of course
> ideally more.

As long as those stats are easily garnered from the OS, it's a snap.
 
> COOL, how much of that would be applicable to SunOS? Myself and one of the
> people at work would love to see about connecting this to an Auspex, and
> they run a chopped up version of SunOS.

Dunno. I have never attempted to aquire kernel stats under SunOS. Solaris
is bad enough. Some stuff is easy, other stuff you have to walk the entire
process structure and tally each individual process. :-P

-ethan

 
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