Problems with Silverstone GD01-MXR and LCDSmartie 5.4

ralphy · Post by **ralphy** » June 5th, 2007, 2:14 pm

A forum search revealed nothing on this Silverstone - Has anyone got LCDSmartie to work with the GD-01 MXR?

I've tried imon.dll and imond.dll with various screen sizes. After pressing apply, some screen sizes are accepted (eg 1x20), whereas other screen settings come up with an error 'failed to open device: DLL initialise error: imon.dll Display not found'.

Interestingly, for a screen setting that is accepted, when LCD Smartie is shut down and restarted, the above error reappears.

When the error doesn't come up, the display remains blank. iMon works, so I know the display is fine.

What am I doing wrong? (Oh, and when trying to run LCDSmartie, I do not have iMon or iMedian running, so there is nothing else trying to talk to the display)

jonno · Post by **jonno** » July 19th, 2007, 7:34 am

I am having exactly the same problem!!

iMON software is totally useless, I would rather not have the display than just be able to watch it scroll useless junk across my display!

LCD Smartie was my last hope, but I just cant get it to work.

Surely someone MUST have gotten something to work with the GD01MX from silverstone? It looks such a cool display, just a shame the software that Silverstone choose to ship with it is so dire....

mold · Post by **mold** » October 3rd, 2007, 1:59 am

same problem here. i'm hoping that someone has been able to get this display to work with Smartie. has anyone out there been successful?

ralphy · Post by **ralphy** » October 6th, 2007, 1:49 am

As you have discovered, this LCD is different to the older VFD type.

cybrmage has taken the Limited API specification from http://imonapi.tripod.com and developed a driver for LCD Smartie here http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=1460

There has also been extensive work integrating this display (which is the same as the UltraBay and the newer Antec Fusions) with MediaPortal.
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/updat ... 26713.html