Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:22:26 -0500
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pgw99@doc.ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:50:02PM +0200, Marc Giger wrote:
> 
> My personal goal would be to controll a Dot-Matrix Display. The
> Display should show something like the actual CPU temperature,
> CPU-load, processes, s.m.a.r.t state, etc etc etc etc..........But my
> problem is how to beginn with that. I would prefer to controll it with a
> PCI card. Also I looked today at 68HC11 microcontrollers, which I can
> connect to the serial port and transmit the needed infos.
> 
> Are there suggestions / comments / questions?
> 
> If somebody is interested to develop such a card / controller with me, I
> will be pleased to hear from you!

I don't know if you're more after having a project or having the end
result, but if you just want the hardware then the end result is
already available here:

http://www.crystalfontz.com/


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