Post by Oliver KleeIn verschiedenen Foren wird das Problem auch immer wieder angesprochen
jedoch ohne Lösung bzw. mit nicht richtigen aussagen.
Medion stellt keinen Treiber in den verfügbaren Bereichen bereit. Wie
gesagt, es muss ihn aber geben, da das Display in verschiedenen Rechnern
mit Vista eingesetzt wird.
Wenn du was hörst, wäre ich an der Lösung sehr interessiert.
Hier gibt es einen mehr als nur zufriedenstellenden Workaround:
http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/foren/viewtopic/t-20579.html
Technical details
First of all the display is a custom built job for Medion by Futaba Corp
http://www.futaba.co.jp/english/index.htm .
The model number is M18ST05A, which you wont find listed on their web site.
However the top half of the display appears to be based on one of their
standard products; a 2x16 character VFD using 5x7 dot matrix characters via
a serial (COM port) interface controller.
I'm still trying to find the correct specifications document for the top
part of the display but the one most likely is for the M162MD04AA.
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Use the display manually
As the VFD is a COM port device, you can send data to it via that port. In
this case via good old DOS commands.
Open up a DOS window (Start > Run... > type in the word "command" > press
OK)
Initialise the COM2 port by entering the command:
mode com2 9600,n,1,8
Send console (keyboard) characters to COM2 using the command:
type con>COM2
Now enter test messages. Each time you press Enter the text will appear on
the VFD. After the 32nd character the display will clear and start again.
To stop sending messages and get your keyboard back, press Ctrl-C or press
Ctrl-Z + Enter.
It should be possible to send special characters and control codes using
Ctrl characters, but I haven't found the right ones yet..... I read
somewhere that the control codes are sent by prefixing them with Ctrl-U but
I have not had any success so far.
I know that this technique is not very useful, but it provides the basis for
writing simple programmes that send characters to the display.
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Using LCD Smartie 5.3
You can use LCD Smartie http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/ with this unit,
but not very successfully.
Before you can use LCD Smartie, you must turn off the display - ( right
click on the MLCM icon in the system tray > Medion Display > Turn Off )
Then run LCD smartie. Click on the Setup button. In the LCD settings panel
do the following:
LCD Size: 2x16
Type: Crystalfonz (serial)
Crystalfonz settings: Make sure that the "v2 character set" is unchecked
COM Port: COM2
Baud rate: 9600
In the Screen settings panel do the following:
To enable the default "Screen 1" (LCD Smartie logo) make sure that
the Enabled box is checked/ticked
the boxes "Don't scroll this line" are both unchecked
the boxes or "Continue on next line" and "Center text" are both unchecked.
Then click "OK" to save your settings.
Close down LCD Smartie completely, then restart it to reinitialise the
display.
So far I have only got the LCD Smartie logo screen working correctly; if
other folk find settings that work better for all the other LCD Smartie
screens perhaps they can post them here.