1.1. About this Document

This document was meant as a tutorial for LCDproc users. It tries to introduce you into the world of LCDproc giving you an overview of the project. After reading this document you will be able to set up your own LCDproc'ed system.

Please note that this document is still "under construction". We hope to finish it until the final release of LCDproc, which will probably take place in May or June 2002. If you run into any trouble feel free to write to the LCDproc mailing list. See http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/mail.php3 for details on how to subscribe to the list. Therefore you might want to have a look at http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/, to get the latest version of this document (, unless you want to generate it yourself from the docbook files in the CVS).

This document was initially written for LCDproc 0.4.3. At the time of writing there had already been the "LCDproc User's Guide" written by William W. Ferrel in 1999. His version covered an early version of LCDproc and therefore concentrated on Matrix Orbital displays.

William's document was "recycled" for the description of the Matrix Orbital display driver and for other parts of this document.

In several other places e-mails and other documents have been included in this document. The authors of those are listed below every such document.