I've played around and as usual the terminal is responding with a load of cryptic error messages when I try and 'make' so I suspect I'm missing something... Running ./configure seems to do...stuff but when I make I get /tmp/cc35u8yk.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cc35u8yk.s:142: Error: bad instruction ...

The following links might be helpful to you, I have not tested them for the Pi but I don't see why they wouldn't work: LCDProc http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/index.php3?continue=yes LCD4Linux http://ssl.bulix.org/projects/lcd4linux/ I will try one out now and report back, I am using a Matrix Orbital ...

Definately a cisco console lead.

...It's been a long time since "lol" really meant just that.