Haven't tried 1st suggestion yet, but I've been playing around with your 2nd suggestion... well... I can't find a datasheet for my displays so I've been playing the old game of finding a ST7920 DS...
No luck. Maybe 1 in 10 starts I still get the zeros. Tried increasing the DEFINE LCD_COMMANDUS 1000 to 1500 and DEFINE LCD_DATAUS to 100 and inserted the code you suggested. I didn't mention I need...
Re: Graphical Displays with PBP3
if you are using 4 bit mode for lcd then the DL bit must remain unset in the command
richard Today, 06:19my code assumes 4 bit mode
to get to lcd mode RE bit must be 0
so more like
lcdout $FE, %00100010...