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    ASUS Direct Messenger G1 & G2

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by thepctech, Jan 22, 2007.

  1. thepctech

    thepctech Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is there any software out there that can write to this device? I would love to be able to put the CPU Speed, temp, load, uptime, hd space remaining, and a slew of other information to this screen. I built a Media Center PC, it had a VFD display, and there is alot of software that can write to these type of devices. One of them is a program called LCD Smartie, if we can get some info from ASUS maybe we can produce a driver plug-in to use the LCD Smartie program with the OLED screen on these G1's and G2's. What do you all think about this idea?

    Brian

    LCD Smartie link
    http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/
     
    thepctech, Jan 22, 2007
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  2. PROPortable

    PROPortable Company Representative

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    Yeah, what information do you want?
     
    PROPortable, Jan 22, 2007
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  3. thepctech

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    well, information that might help in the development of software to write a driver to access the OLED display. I'm not sure what exactly I would need, but the option to use that OLED to display all of the information that LCD Smartie can display would be great. Are you a software developer? I have coded C, C++, and I am in a Java class right now, I have never written a device driver before. Maybe we could get in touch with the folks that make the LCD software and see what it takes to make the files needed to control the OLED display. Take a look at their site, and look at what the program can do. If you think it is worth the effort, I will help the community in any way I can.

    Brian
     
    thepctech, Jan 23, 2007
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  4. Jammy

    Jammy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I would love to be able to do something useful with the Direct Messenger beyond tell the time. Hopefully someone will develop this feature further
     
    Jammy, Jan 23, 2007
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  5. Spoom

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    I can program in Visual C++ and various other languages. I've never done something as low level as a device driver, but if there's an API out there I'd see what I could do. My personal pet peeve is that the email check only works with Outlook and Outlook Express; I'd want it to work with Thunderbird.
     
    Spoom, Jan 23, 2007
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  6. thepctech

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    thepctech, Jan 23, 2007
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  7. Lord Farkward

    Lord Farkward Notebook Consultant

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    i dunno anything regarding programming so i can't offer any help

    but i'm offering my support :D

    g'luck guys. i'm sure many like me will be watching closely to ur work ;)
     
    Lord Farkward, Jan 23, 2007
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  8. tanis

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    Probably you are thinking about Windows.
    But I wanted to get it running in Linux,
    and so far I have found that this OLED display is a USB device - maybe this information is useful for you.

    I would like to write a Linux driver for that thing (using usbsnoop in Windows),
    but don't have time to play with it right now :(

    Anyway, good luck :)
     
    tanis, Jan 30, 2007
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