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Florian Fuchs edited this page Jun 22, 2026 · 3 revisions

The original VMU LCD Display driver by Christian Berger was used to rebase and integrate it to the current 7.x kernel. This will be in release 7.1.2.

To put custom text on your LCD, you can use the text2lcd tool by Christian Berger:

text2lcd "HELLO WORLD" > /dev/vmu_lcd0

There is a slightly improved tool, that also handles upper/lowercase and mirroring of the text:

vmu_lcd_text "HELLO WORLD" > /dev/vmu_lcd0

For mirroring:

vmu_lcd_text -r "HELLO WORLD" > /dev/vmu_lcd0

This picture shows the default boot-image of the driver and a 7.1.1 kernel:

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