How to shwo some text on my character LCD when system is booting.

pasan · 30th March 2007, 09:29 AM

Hey friends. I maked a mp3 player using winamp plugin. ( 16 X 2 LCD )

No i wanna put some text on my LCD when system is booting. Is it possible ?

thomas997 · 31st March 2007, 06:04 AM

You could use a microcontroller which sends it a string on power up and then "disconnects" itself so winamp can control it later (might depend on how you have it connected, if it can override the bootup state of say the parallel/com port).

Or better yet, talk through the micro over rs232/usb when the computer has booted, but let it do its own thing otherwise.

but I believe you are looking for a simple solution, which this isnt.. hm it might be possible to modify the bootup procedure to send out a message. but then you still woudlnt see it until say half way into boot.

pasan · 31st March 2007, 06:53 AM

Hey bro i saw some one use LCD print or something like that to print some text on LCD when it is booting.

How to use a pic to print someting and when system is boot automatically take over to winamp?

dangus · 5th April 2007, 04:35 AM

If you hunt around, there's plans for using a microcontroller to emulate those serial interface LCD modules. If the source code is provided, you could modify it to display some default message until the computer says something over the serial line.

It's possible that there are motherboards out there with BIOSes that have been patched to support LCD displays. I've got an old Wyse '286 that came with an LCD front panel display.

pasan · 5th April 2007, 06:28 AM

Im using SMARTIE for do that thing.

dangus · 6th April 2007, 01:27 AM

Maybe you're better off just speeding up Windoze to make it boot faster. Check out the forums at MP3car.com for some good info.

You might also want to consider running a DOS player without Windows. MPXplay is still being actively developed, and has just about any feature you could ask for (including LCD display support and resuming). http://www.geocities.com/mpxplay/

pasan · 6th April 2007, 04:22 AM

Yes MPXPLAY is also a very good software. Now I move to this http://www.markuszehnder.ch/projects...ugin/index.php. Its very easy to use. But its stil need windows.

Thanks for ur Kind help

30th March 2007, 09:29 AM	#1
pasan diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sri Lanka	How to shwo some text on my character LCD when system is booting. Hey friends. I maked a mp3 player using winamp plugin. ( 16 X 2 LCD ) No i wanna put some text on my LCD when system is booting. Is it possible ? __________________ pasan...

31st March 2007, 06:53 AM	#3
pasan diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sri Lanka	Hey bro i saw some one use LCD print or something like that to print some text on LCD when it is booting. How to use a pic to print someting and when system is boot automatically take over to winamp? __________________ pasan...

5th April 2007, 06:28 AM	#5
pasan diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sri Lanka	Im using SMARTIE for do that thing. __________________ pasan...

6th April 2007, 04:22 AM	#7
pasan diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sri Lanka	Yes MPXPLAY is also a very good software. Now I move to this http://www.markuszehnder.ch/projects...ugin/index.php. Its very easy to use. But its stil need windows. Thanks for ur Kind help __________________ pasan...

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31st March 2007, 06:04 AM	#2
thomas997 diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Vancouver	You could use a microcontroller which sends it a string on power up and then "disconnects" itself so winamp can control it later (might depend on how you have it connected, if it can override the bootup state of say the parallel/com port). Or better yet, talk through the micro over rs232/usb when the computer has booted, but let it do its own thing otherwise. but I believe you are looking for a simple solution, which this isnt.. hm it might be possible to modify the bootup procedure to send out a message. but then you still woudlnt see it until say half way into boot.

5th April 2007, 04:35 AM	#4
dangus diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vancouver Island	If you hunt around, there's plans for using a microcontroller to emulate those serial interface LCD modules. If the source code is provided, you could modify it to display some default message until the computer says something over the serial line. It's possible that there are motherboards out there with BIOSes that have been patched to support LCD displays. I've got an old Wyse '286 that came with an LCD front panel display.

6th April 2007, 01:27 AM	#6
dangus diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vancouver Island	Maybe you're better off just speeding up Windoze to make it boot faster. Check out the forums at MP3car.com for some good info. You might also want to consider running a DOS player without Windows. MPXplay is still being actively developed, and has just about any feature you could ask for (including LCD display support and resuming). http://www.geocities.com/mpxplay/

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