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With wifi off and only reading it takes about 10-20% of the battery to read the whole book. So I think it is not bad. Reading books means no CPU usage and infrequent screen refreshes. If you want to play chess all the time you may expect 2 days working. |
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01-12-2014, 02:05 PM | #48 |
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I've just joined this forum, having spent some some time reading this thread and others to do with installing alternative software on Kobo devices. Thanks for making your work available, Marek!
I'm currently experimenting with your kernel on my Kobo Mini alongside a custom Debian install. My plan is to look at building some simple PyQt applications for it, using an embedded Qt library like the one that Kobo ship with the device. |
01-17-2014, 06:38 AM | #49 |
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Hi Marek,
I installed your image on a Kobo touch N905B. It boots fine and shows your nice screen, but does not react to any touch input. Can you give any hints, maybe to build the image myself? |
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It's not even embedded version of the Qt. It's full version that is installed there. Even QML and WebKit is working. I like it as you can develop and test your software on your PC first. I also managed to build calibre ebook-viewer (it's python/qt, too) and started modifing it (fix for margins and fullscreen mode on awesome window manager). I like this viewer the best on Debian. My modifications are here: https://github.com/marek-g/calibre Last edited by MarekGibek; 01-19-2014 at 03:47 AM. |
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On a different subject, I've been experiencing issues with the representation of colours (well, shades of grey) on the framebuffer. When using your autoupdate tool, everything looks fine. Without autoupdate, the colour mapping seems incorrect. I'll try and post some photos to demonstrate this. Update: I've attached two photos: the first shows a black-to-white gradient image which was sent to the framebuffer with auto-update enabled (using eink_enable_autoupdate); the second shows what happens after a full update is performed (with eink_full_update). Last edited by dboddie; 01-20-2014 at 06:44 PM. |
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Updated HowTo: Patch MG's debian-image for Kobo Mini via a Linux-Desktop/Terminal
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And since I spend several hours to collect all the latest informations related to the patch of the image for the mini on a linux-desktop, may be it helps some people to put it all in a nutshell. Updated HowTo: Patch Debian-image from Marek for Kobo Mini via a Linux-Desktop/Terminal: As always, please backup all your data before - just in case you produce an error with 'dd' and remember that all the data on the new msd-card for the Kobo will be destroyed! 1. Download the image here: https://sites.google.com/site/gibekm...kobo-as-tablet 2. unzip 'Kobo.zip' 3. navigate via terminal to the unzipped items 4. unrar the 3 debian parts just with one command: Code:
unrar x 2013-08-17_kobo_debian.part01.rar https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...9&postcount=68 So just extract the kobo mini-specific data from the original 2gb kobo-msd-card block 1025 (if you want to be sure, use a 1-1 copy of it; X=letter of your 2gb-msd): Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdX bs=512 skip=1024 count=1 of=anyname.img sudo sync 6. transfer Marek's debian-image via dd to a fresh 16gb-msd-card (8gb-cards are also possible but sometimes they are some blocks smaller than the image, Y=letter of your unmounted 16gb-msd): Code:
sudo dd if=2013-08-17_kobo_debian.img bs=512 of=/dev/sdY sudo sync Code:
sudo dd if=anyname.img bs=512 seek=1024 count=1 of=/dev/sdY sudo sync 9. on first start tap on the nickel-item and config and start your wlan including password there 10. after the next boot, tap on the debian-icon, start WiFi via launcher-Config-WiFi-Start and wait until you receive the ip-message 11. have fun (and admire marek for his work .-) Just had time, to check if everything works: perfect! Only one question, just if someone knows: The letters in terminal, nano, etc. on the mini are a little bit too small for my eyes. Is there an easy way to configure them double sized? grtz, martux |
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Afaik you have also to follow steps 9-10 of my previous post in the right order:
1. Nickel, 2. Wlan-setup in Nickel, 3. reboot into debian, 4. goto wifi-config, start it and wait some secs until a message box with the ip-adress appears. grtz martux Quote:
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01-21-2014, 03:14 PM | #57 |
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Marek, do you have any ideas about the framebuffer problem I mentioned above? I've attached a couple of pictures to that message to show what I was referring to.
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01-24-2014, 05:57 PM | #58 |
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how to run xfce4
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i like this project! i 've a kobo 905c, so have just installed marek's image and tryed some tools, but i'd really like to have a working x window manager. with xfce4-panel i've this issue failed to connect to session manager: failed to connect...session manager variable not defined. No window manager registered on screen 0. to start the panel without this check run --disable-wm-check thank you for your help! okular works but only if i launch from terminal i don't know why(i configured it on lua) synergy and calibre works well and can launch from menu ... firefox a bit slow on boot then ok here 2 pics |
01-29-2014, 11:04 PM | #59 |
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MarekGibek, I read on your website that you installed Ubuntu 13.04 on your Kobo Touch. How did you do that?
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03-10-2014, 10:17 AM | #60 |
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Everyone who has got this working on the kobo tuch, could you please post the models of the sd cards you used. I am consernd about bying an sd card to find out that it is incompatable¡
Thanks for this by the way, it looks really cool hope it is usable. By the way what do you think would be the best way to add new functionalaty to a kobo tablet. find a way to wright and load programs to the original Kobo OS, port and load existing linux aplications to Kobo OS, or to use OPs OS? Last edited by pintjuk; 03-10-2014 at 11:32 AM. |
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