WPILib & LCD Display

[ASeligman]

Originally Posted by byteit101

I don't know much about what you are doing, but I do know you have a error in this code, putsd is expecting a string, not a character, try putsd("h"); (double quote vs single quote) or putsd("h\0");

We also tried quotes but we didn't try the \0 at all. We'll give that a go tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Are you initializing the LCD driver chip properly? The ones I have used needed to be prodded a bit before they would display characters.

I'm not quite sure. The only initialization being done is "OpenSerialPortTwo(BAUD_9600);" so it may be that the LCD chip itself is not being initialized. If you're right, how do you think we could properly initialize that LCD chip?
This is the LCD screen we're using, just a standard HD44780 controller.