The imon Driver

General

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:

For further details, please consult the page and the forum at http://venky.ws/projects/imon/.

Configuration in LCDd.conf

[imon]

Size= 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= 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.