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<sect1 id="i2500vfd-howto">
<title>The i2500vfd Driver</title>
<para>
This section talks about using LCDproc with an Intra2net Intranator 2500 VFD display.
The displays are part of a custom high grade steel chassis and not sold separately.
More information can be found here: <ulink url="http://www.intra2net.com/">Intra2net AG</ulink>
</para>
<para>
It connects to USB using a FTDI FT245BM chip and therefore needs libftdi as requirement.
libftdi can be found here: <ulink url="http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/">libftdi</ulink>
</para>
<sect2 id="i2500vfd-features">
<title>Features</title>
<para>
The display features a 140x32 pixel Noritake VFD tube which gets driven
by an Atmel ATmega128 processor and used as a 23x4 character display with a
6x8 pixel font.
It features B/W colors and two additional adjustable grayscale colors.
It does hardware double buffering with up to 27 FPS and shows an animated boot logo
until data is received from USB.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="i2500vfd-options">
<title>Options</title>
<para>
There are currently no options for this driver.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>