Zalman HD135 VFD (VlSys Mplay)

[cybrmage]

other than the experimental remote control code, the source code for yours and mine are virtually identical... Mine dosent set Dts/Rts (Its not really needed for a virtual serial port, and the SerialPort control default to setting them true anyways)

[-Manfred-]

I tried that without dts/rts enabled and then this (and propably also yours) driver does not work. Those settings are used for powering up this display. Can you compile a version where these are enabled - I can try that on Vista and we can get confirmation that it was the root cause?

/m

[Herr R aus B]

Hi!

@ Manfred - Danke für den Treiber - ich werde ihn ausprobieren! :-)

@ cybrmage the snoop thing is next on my list - gonna report later :-)

happy new year to everyone

axel

[cybrmage]

Originally Posted by -Manfred-

Can you compile a version where these are enabled

Here is a version with DtrEnable and RtsEnable set to true...

I verified that these two lines (and the extra code in mine for the remote mapping) are the only differences... The remote mapping has also been disabled in the code for now (just so we can be at the same point and verify basic functionality).

I guess that I shouldn't be surprised that the CLR runtime works differently on XP and Vista... Gotta love engineered incompatability! 8-}

Let me know what happens with this one...

Originally Posted by Herr R aus B

Hi!
@ cybrmage the snoop thing is next on my list - gonna report later :-)

Cool... I'm looking forward to getting the remote section working... 8-}

Regards,
CybrMage

[-Manfred-]

Here is a version with DtrEnable and RtsEnable set to true...

Can you point out where?

Really cool if we can get this to work also with remote. Thanks for your support!

[cybrmage]

Oops... sorry... it's now attached above...

[-Manfred-]

OK, now your driver works also

But... maybe you can consider to check this out. This version has working brightness control and also properly initialized driver start + this doesn't crash when advanced button is clicked on setup. Source attached. I just want't to help - take this into use or do whatever you want.

That Bus Hound was very useful, thanks for the tip! I will also try to sniff some remote commands. Maybe we can join force here as I'm not a coder?

For people who want to try this: please delete ExternalDisplay.xml first to be sure that you can configure this driver!!!

/m

[cybrmage]

I have incorporated your new code...

The advanced setup doesn't crash on XP... so the problem is with Vista's UAC... The advanced setup needs to write the configuration file for the InputMapper subsystem...

Pleaase run the new version and then post your configuration.log so I can try to figure out a way around UAC.

Regards,
CybrMage

[-Manfred-]

Getting better, all working as should! This didn't crash in setup?!?

Edit: UAC is disabled in my system as it is pain in the a..

[cybrmage]

Actually... The logs helped... It looks like the advanced setup was crashing the input handler... I've rewriteen that part of the code...

Please test the new version and see if it still crashes under Vista (I've tested it under XP and it seems to be working)

Any progress getting bushound logs of how MHC interacts with the remote?

Regards,
CybrMage