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Karmic Antec Fusion VFD

Submitted by rhpot1991 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 22:52
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In past revisions of Ubuntu the Antec Fusion's iMon Pad VFD was very easy to configure. In Karmic there is a little bit of an issue where the lirc_imon module does not detect the VFD correctly. The following directions should get you up and running:

  • Install lcdproc
  • Edit /etc/LCDd.conf
    • Change 'Driver=curses' to 'Driver=imon'
    • Make sure you change the one that is not commented out, there will be 2 occurances of 'Device=curses' in the config
  • Fix the Module's VFD detection
    • Create /etc/modprobe.d/lirc-imon.conf
    • Add 'options lirc_imon display_type=1' to the above file
  • You can now either restart your computer, or run the following
    • sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop && sudo /etc/init.d/LCDd stop && sudo modprobe -r lirc_imon && sudo modprobe lirc_imon && sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start && sudo /etc/init.d/LCDd start

    • Now your VFD should be working again.

Comments

Perfect

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 09:58.

It still works on the mythbuntu 10.04

Nice little guide, took me

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 03:34.

Nice little guide, took me about 30 secs to get mine up and running again.

One typo: sudo modbrobe -> sudo modprobe

This guide worked also for my very old Silverstone LC case that came with apparently the same VFD

Re: Typo

Submitted by rhpot1991 on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 01:58.

Thanks for pointing out the typo, all fixed now.

Devices

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:25.

In the /etc/LCDd.conf, Shouldn't that be

Drivers=imon

?

Re: Devices

Submitted by rhpot1991 on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 14:41.

Actually it should be Driver=imon. I've updated the article, thanks.