-- INTRODUCTION -------------------------------------------------------------- LCDproc is a client server suite including drivers for all kinds of nifty LCD devices. The server works with different display sizes and supports several serial devices: Matrix Orbital, Crystal Fontz, Bayrad, LB216, LCDM001 (kernelconcepts.de), Wirz-SLI and PIC-an-LCD; and some devices connected to the parallel port: HD44780, STV5730, T6963, SED1520 and SED1330. Various clients are available that display things like CPU load, system load, memory usage, uptime, and a lot more. LCDproc also supports key or remote control input for controlling the clients. Our web site is located at http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net For new versions and CVS go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcdproc/ Check there first for new versions or updates. We've got a spot on the web site for user's suggestions, and you can e-mail us as well: choadster@earthlink.net (William W. Ferrell) scriven@cs.colostate.edu (Scott Scriven) -- INSTALLATION -------------------------------------------------------------- Refer to the INSTALL file included with this archive for installation instructions (including how to connect the LCD to your system). -- CHANGES ------------------------------------------------------------------- Woow... a lot. :) See the ChangeLog file for more details. -- HELPING OUT --------------------------------------------------------------- The first thing you should do is join the mailing list, to do so, go to out web site and click on MAIL and follow the instructions. If you get the urge to help out by writing code, feel free to take a look at the TODO file and find out what needs to be done... Also, of course, new ideas are good too! :) To add new drivers, read server/drivers/drv_base.h for instructions. Also you should spend some time reading the files in the docs/ directory. -- SPECIAL THANKS ------------------------------------------------------------ We'd like to thank the following people for helping out with this: Everyone at Matrix Orbital Corporation -- you guys are great! Gareth Watts -- Patches, mailing list, ideas, www, etc. Thanks! Everyone on the mailing list. :) The developers (our team at Sourceforge): Robin Adams afrob Mindaugas Idzelis aim4min Andre Burton andreb Bjoern Andersson ban Benjamin Tse blt Chris Debenham cjdebenh Colin Munro colinmunro Charles Steinkuehler cstein David Douthitt ddouthitt David GLAUDE dglaude Guillaume Filion gfk Glen Gray glengray Mark Haemmerling haemi Shane Spencer hardwire Harald Klein hklein J Robert Ray jrray Matthew Dainty mattd Jim McCracken merlin_jim Philip Pokorny ppokorny Rene Wagner reenoo Joris Robijn robijn Ken Robertson seadawg Simon Harrison smh Stephen Paul tegetana Manuel Stahl themythos Scott Scriven toykeeper William W. Ferrell willfe Everyone who contributed, tested or suggested something to help make LCDproc a better software. -- LEGAL STUFF --------------------------------------------------------------- LCDproc is Copyright (C) 1999-2002 William Ferrell, Scott Scriven and several other contributors. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. The file COPYING contains the GNU General Public License. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.