Hi,

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:53:54PM -0800, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> Apr  3 02:28:17 raq0 paneld[1545]: cannot attach to device hd44780, 
> node /dev/lcd
> 
> Any ideas what I can do to fix it? I was wondering if the 1.6.1 don't 
> work because the patch was intended for 1.6. Any other explanations?

well, ktrace output was not useful [to me], so I'd suggest to do the
following:

 - Make sure you have a line like "lcd0 at mainbus" or "panel0 at mainbus" in
   your dmesg output. If there is no such line then the driver somehow did not
   make it into the kernel

 - See if 'echo -n "blah blah" > /dev/lcd' prints anything on the display. If
   not, there is a good chance that device node has wrong major/minor

paneld prints this error message if it cannot either open /dev/lcd (or the one
which is specified in /etc/paneld.conf) device or get the device information
via device-specific ioctl (see hd44780_open() in hd44780.c).

SY,
--cdi

P.S. And yes, the driver was not tested with 1.6.1...