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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Another character LCD question

I am using the Cyclone Edition dev kit and I've built a basic Nios II system, and loaded the "count_binary" example program using the Eclipse for Nios II software. If I set stdout to the LCD th...
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16 years ago

There were a couple of naming mismatches that caused this problem:

1. count_binary.c was checking if LCD_DISPLAY_NAME had been defined, but system.h used LCD_NAME.

2. count_binary.h looked for /dev/lcd_display, but my device was actually at /dev/lcd.

I hope this will be useful to someone in the future. The program worked properly after I changed these two things and set stdout back to jtag_uart.