The imon
driver controls
Soundgraph iMON VFD
devices, that are either preinstalled or available as optional accessories
for a variety of Home Theater PC (HTPC) cases from Ahanix, Silverstone, Cooler Master
and others. They can also be bought separately and then fit into a 5,25" disk drive bay
of any regular PC.
The iMON VFD sports a vacuum fluorescent display with 16x2 characters that connects to the computer using USB. Although the device is shipped with an IR remote control and some versions even have a volume knob, LCDproc's driver currently only supports the display part of the device.
In order to be able to use it, you have to get and install one of the following Linux kernel modules:
standalone iMON VFD driver from http://venky.ws/projects/imon/
the iMON module included with LIRC ver. 0.7.1 or newer from the LIRC project
For further details, please consult the page and the forum at http://venky.ws/projects/imon/.
WIDTH
x
HEIGHT
Set the display size. The default 16x2
should be safe
for most if not all users, since the device seeems to be made only with
this one size.
But who knowns …
DEVICE
Select the output device to use. Change this from the default
/dev/lcd
to the device file that gets created
when the kernel module (see above) is loaded.