KoBox, or how to run X.org and Firefox on your Kobo

[Georgelemental]

Touch input seems to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise from the display now. (The display is in normal portrait)

[NiMa]

Originally Posted by Georgelemental

Touch input seems to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise from the display now. (The display is in normal portrait)

Hmm well... that is quite unexpected.
Have you replaced the touch input py file?

I'll have a look at it and see if I can do something.

[bobpatton77]

Originally Posted by NiMa

Just SSH your Kobo’s IP, it should work.
If you didn't install NiLuJe's stuff, telnet instead.

What would be my username and password?

[NiLuJe]

Assuming you're using my stuff and not the stock telnet, root, and nothing, just hit enter. (For all I remember, the stock telnet might also let you in without a password anyway ;p).

[bobpatton77]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Assuming you're using my stuff and not the stock telnet, root, and nothing, just hit enter. (For all I remember, the stock telnet might also let you in without a password anyway ;p).

hmmmm i feel as though I've missed a kobo hacking for dummies cause im lost

so I have the one click koreader package and kobox on my kobo. does none of this come with ssh (or telnet) by default? I cannot seem to telnet or ssh into my kobo when i am in kobox, or anything for that matter.

disregarding telnet, i have just now tried installing your suite of tools by dragging them into my kobo root. assuming I fix winrar telling me it failed copying over 600 syslinks, how would I go about activating ssh? through a shortcut in nicklemenu? or does it automatically activate?

[NiMa]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Assuming you're using my stuff and not the stock telnet, root, and nothing, just hit enter. (For all I remember, the stock telnet might also let you in without a password anyway ;p).

Yeah for telnet you'll have to enter "root" as a username, and it will go to the shell directly. For SSH, you'll have to press "Enter" as if that was a "password" and then it will go to a shell.

[NiMa]

Originally Posted by bobpatton77

hmmmm i feel as though I've missed a kobo hacking for dummies cause im lost

so I have the one click koreader package and kobox on my kobo. does none of this come with ssh (or telnet) by default? I cannot seem to telnet or ssh into my kobo when i am in kobox, or anything for that matter.

disregarding telnet, i have just now tried installing your suite of tools by dragging them into my kobo root. assuming I fix winrar telling me it failed copying over 600 syslinks, how would I go about activating ssh? through a shortcut in nicklemenu? or does it automatically activate?

I'd suggest you start with Telnet for now. If it doesn't work from KoBox, two options:

busybox telnetd -F

if you can access the terminal and there's no quirks with touch input
-OR-
When in the stock firmware (Nickel), type 'devmodeon' in the search bar and hit enter. That'll enable it for you.

[bobpatton77]

Originally Posted by NiMa

When in the stock firmware (Nickel), type 'devmodeon' in the search bar and hit enter. That'll enable it for you.

wow, that worked flawlessly, thank you.

[NiMa]

Originally Posted by bobpatton77

wow, that worked flawlessly, thank you.

My pleasure!

touch seems to be weird

How weird?

[NiLuJe]

Originally Posted by bobpatton77

disregarding telnet, i have just now tried installing your suite of tools by dragging them into my kobo root. assuming I fix winrar telling me it failed copying over 600 syslinks, how would I go about activating ssh? through a shortcut in nicklemenu? or does it automatically activate?

Err, nope, you went a bit click happy on the unarchiving there ;p.

You simply want to drop *just* the KoboRoot.tgz in the .kobo folder like any other FW update, the rest of what's in the archive are the sources .

[bobpatton77]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Err, nope, you went a bit click happy on the unarchiving there ;p.

You simply want to drop *just* the KoboRoot.tgz in the .kobo folder like any other FW update, the rest of what's in the archive are the sources .

that makes much more sense, thank you. and it just replaces the existing telnet?

[Elektron]

And SSH and FTP.

[NiLuJe]

It doesn't replace anything as much as launch a dedicated instance on boot, which prevents Nickel's from doing anything useful.

[Elektron]

So if I do the installation then I do it this way with the KoboRoot or do I have to do all the SSH commands etc.?

[Elektron]

Log from my brain:

11:44 - Rebooting!
11:45 - I see NickelMenu!
11:46 - NickelMenu not showing menu, will re-install.
11:46 - Downloading install package for KOReader, Plato, KFMon, NM
11:47 - yeah this download is slow...
11:48 - zzz...
11:49 - done!
11:51 - installing...
11:55 - installed!
11:56 - NickelMenu menu item not there, and I need to go for my lunch break ;p

Be back later!