Front LCD

[Harold van Oostrom]

Hello John

Your question was clear.
Don't know how the LCD in a 2650 is controlled (don't own any) but maybe 
one of these projects has some hints or code you can use:

http://freshmeat.net/search?orderby=popularity_percent_DESC&q=LCD

Cheers,
Harold.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:10:12PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Mikael_Jensen at dell.com writes:
> 
> > Hi John, 
> > You customize the message through the BIOS setup, by pressing F2 during boot
> 
> That's not quite what I mean.  I'd like to have it show, for instance,
> the current load average.  Something that is dynamically updated as it
> runs.  I could easily write a script to find the load average and send
> it over to some LCD-display program or device, but I don't know where
> to find such a device.
> 
> > Is there any way to write a program to display a custom message on the
> > front LCD panel on a PowerEdge 2650?
> >