NIOS II + Character LCD + DE0 Nano = Problem!

Hi all,

I have spent my entire weekend trying working on the character LCD module provided as a display peripheral with NIOS II, and i am going nowhere with it!

Here is my situation;

SOPC build using NIOSII/f cpu, and character LCD, SDRAM, sysid, jtag_uart, and other few peripherals like led and stuff.

I assigned pins for my LCD as following;

set_location_assignment PIN_F13 -to LCD_RS

set_location_assignment PIN_T15 -to LCD_E

set_location_assignment PIN_T13 -to LCD_DATA[0]

set_location_assignment PIN_T14 -to LCD_DATA[1]

set_location_assignment PIN_T12 -to LCD_DATA[2]

set_location_assignment PIN_R13 -to LCD_DATA[3]

set_location_assignment PIN_T11 -to LCD_DATA[4]

set_location_assignment PIN_R12 -to LCD_DATA[5]

set_location_assignment PIN_R11 -to LCD_DATA[6]

set_location_assignment PIN_T10 -to LCD_DATA[7]

I have grounded the LCD_RW pin as i dont plan on reading anything from the LCD.

Following is my main.c;

#include <stdio.h>
# include "system.h"
# include "altera_avalon_pio_regs.h"
# include "altera_avalon_lcd_16207_regs.h"
# include "altera_avalon_lcd_16207.h"
int main(){
	char ch = '\0';
	FILE *lcd_d = 0;
	lcd_d = fopen(LCD_DISPLAY_NAME, "w");
	printf("LCD & Keypad Test!\n");
	//altera_avalon_lcd_16207_init(LCD_DISPLAY_BASE);
	printf("Address of LCD: %s\n", LCD_DISPLAY_NAME);
	while(1){
		ch = kbd_getc();
		usleep(9);
		if(ch != 0){
			printf("%c ", ch);
			fprintf(lcd_d, "Hello LCD");
		}
	}
	return (0);
}

I have all the stderr, stdin and stdout pointed to jtag_uart. I tried pointing it to LCD, but still no luck

I dont have Reduced Driver selected nor do i have reduced C library selected.

In my BSP, i can see the driver for LCD.

in the alt_sys_init.c file in my BSP project folder, i can also see the altera_avalon_lcd_16207_init(LCD_NAME, lcd_name) is called. And i am guessing that this initializes my LCD.

altera_avalon_lcd_16207.c is also included in my system.

So when i print fprintf(lcd_d, "Hello World"); it prints nothing. It is not even initializing my LCD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have spent way too much time on this and i know i am missing some stupid thing!

Thank you

PK