7i73 LCD shows rubisch

Not sure why i would add motmot since I am not testing motion
I will try the halcmd script Tuesday

My setup is:
hal file with LCD/net commands setup to pipe lcd comps char out to 7I73
LinuxCNC 2.8

And I see no cursor issues (cursor is turned off when LCD component starts)

2.8 is with PREEMPT-RT

motmod is used to configure the value of the servo-thread
but he refuses the line ?

In Andys example, the component "threads" is setting up the real time thread
( it defaults to 1 ms AFAIK)

oups yes,
thank you I learned something else

OK tried Andys test.hal script on LinuxCNC 2.8 and 2.7: (with adjustments for host FPGA type, I used a Ethernet card)

2.8 Works (blinking underline cursor disabled)

2.7 Does not work (cursor never disabled= hash on screen)

I think that there were some cleanups in the LCD component that were not merged to 2.7.
This is born out by using the 2.8 LCD component source on LinuxCNC 2.7 (this fixes the cursor issue)

I suspect this may be a long standing bug that was not noticed due the long response time of LCDs
which would make the scattered cursor hash nearly invisible.

In that case, the answer is to download this file:
raw.githubusercontent.com/LinuxCNC/linux...hal/components/lcd.c
and then compile and intall it with