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-- 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.