ASUS G1/G2/G50/G70/G71 OLED Daemon

This Java daemon displays system monitoring information on the small (256x32) OLED display found on ASUS G50/G70/G71 (USB ID: 0b05:175b).
It also works for ASUS G1/G2 (128x32 / USB ID: 0b05:1726).

Here is how it looks like in action:

ASUS G1/G2/G50/G70/G71 OLED displaying system monitoring information

Display on OLED what's playing in Amarok or Kaffeine

Display is showing:

Load on the machine
CPU usage (User / System / IOWait / Idle)
Total traffic IN / OUT on all interfaces
Battery level
Current time and date
Current operating frequencies for each core
HDD temperature (from smartctl)
CPU temperature
Message notifications from Kopete and Thunderbird
What's playing in Amarok or Kaffeine
Snapshot from ASUS G1

You can re-arrange the layout as you like by changing the positions, enabling/disabling each module or write your own modules that can do any fancy monitoring you like. More information can be found in the README and CHANGELOG files included in the archive below.

Download

You can always find the latest version here: http://asusg50oled.sourceforge.net/download/asusg50oled.tgz
Alternatively you can grab the SVN trunk:
svn co https://asusg50oled.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/asusg50oled/trunk asusg50oled
Or maybe there is a package already available for your distribution

Requirements

Linux. Here you can find out how to install Ubuntu on this notebook: http://monalisa.cern.ch/blog/2008/09/16/ubuntu-on-asus-g50v/. Windows is not supported (yet?).
Latest version of the asus_oled driver. 2.6.29-rc1+ has the driver in the staging section, so just select CONFIG_ASUS_OLED.
For an earlier kernel (<=2.6.28) grab the SVN version of the driver from here: http://lapsus.berlios.de/asus_oled.html
Java 1.6+: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/
Or on Ubuntu :
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin ttf-mscorefonts-installer sudo update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
To get new mail notifications from Thunderbird: Mailbox Alert

Quick system preparation guide (Ubuntu-based, pre-2.6.29, but you get the point; more info in the README):

We have to work as root
$ sudo su -
Make sure all the required packages are installed
# apt-get install sun-java6-bin subversion make gcc smartmontools netcat ttf-mscorefonts-installer
# update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
Get the latest version of asus_oled and install it
# cd /usr/src/
# svn co svn://svn.berlios.de/lapsus/asus_oled/trunk asus_oled
# cd asus_oled
# make
# make install
If kernel version (uname -a) is up to and including 2.6.27
# rmmod usbhid; modprobe asus_oled; modprobe usbhid

# dmesg | grep asus-oled

[   23.216917] asus-oled 4-4:1.0: Attached Asus OLED device: G50 [width 256, pack_mode 1]
[   23.216933] usbcore: registered new interface driver asus-oled

Make usbhid ignore the OLED display
# vim /etc/modprobe.d/usbhid
add
options usbhid quirks=0x0b05:0x175b:0x0004
# depmod -ae
# update-initramfs -u
Else, if kernel version is 2.6.28+ (Ubuntu 9.04 and up)
# modprobe asus_oled

# dmesg | grep asus-oled

[   23.216917] asus-oled 4-4:1.0: Attached Asus OLED device: G50 [width 256, pack_mode 1]
[   23.216933] usbcore: registered new interface driver asus-oled

Get and install the daemon
# cd /opt/
# wget http://asusg50oled.sourceforge.net/download/asusg50oled.tgz
# tar -xzf asusg50oled.tgz
# cd asusg50oled
# ./start.sh
# utils/install.sh
See how to configure the daemon and the notifications
# less README

Contact
Costin Grigoras