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I've been working on an LCD project for two (3?) days now, and still 
have nothing to show for it. I'm trying to use 4 bit mode. I was 
originally driving a PCF8754AN using I2C, which was in turn connected 
to the LCD. I gave up on that this morning and switched over to driving 
it directly from PORTB. Still no joy. Used someone else's library, 
nothing. I've looked at the signals using DigiTrace, and they're doing 
exactly what they're supposed to. Tried another LCD, still nothing. The 
LCD stays blank, although at times I see garbage characters, and once a 
flashing cursor. I've tried code written in WinAVR, and even tried 
BASCOM, which is my emergency backup language just to see the hardware 
is sound. Nothing.

My initialization sequence is right out of the 44780 data sheet.

wait
3		// 8 bit mode
wait
3		// 8 bit mode
wait
3		// 8 bit mode
wait
2		// 4 bit mode
28		// 4 bit mode, 2 line display
08		// display off
01		// clear display
06		// Entry mode, increment, no shift
0C		// Display on, cursor off, blink off
02		// return home (added out of desperation)
80		// Set DDRAM address to 0 (again, out of desperation)
48 'H'	// Sent with RS high, should display an H

I've also added lots of delays so everything is nice and slow, also 
didn't help.

I uploaded the waveforms in the Photos section, under the Waveforms 
folder.
I can also upload the DigiTrace file is you need it.

Thanks for any advice that might save my sanity!

Regards,
   JJ