Debian chroot for Kobo

[ah-]

Hi,

inspired by the Kindle OS thread I experimented with getting Debian wheezy to run in a chroot on my Kobo Touch and it runs pretty well. Xorg works fine with fbdev, just the touchscreen needed a bit of fixing in xorg-input-evdev since the driver sends out broken coordinates when a touch is ended (see the modified sources in the home directory in the image) and calibration (use xinput_calibrator or if that doesn't work do it manually in /etc/X11/xorg.conf).

To try it out put http://andreas.heider.io/kobo_debian/debian.ext3 http://andreas.heider.io/kobo_debian/debian.sh on your onboard storage, telnet/ssh to the kobo and run /mnt/onboard/debian.sh

I preinstalled some software from http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=195702 so there's a nice menu and a few somewhat working programs. But since it's debian and a fully working X-server you can run whatever you want.

I'll post some screenshots and more info tomorrow.

[giorgio130]

Great job regarding the broken coordinates, this is also an issue with my port of kindlepdfviewer, I'll see what I can come up with.

[Foosho]

I managed to install and start-up Debian on the Kobo Touch (using the plugin interface), but the touch screen does not function properly (as was expected from the startpost)

How to do the following to fix this?

Originally Posted by ah-

(use xinput_calibrator or if that doesn't work do it manually in /etc/X11/xorg.conf).

(I tried to execute xinpunt_calibrator by editing debian.sh, but it did not run and editing the .ext3 file itself seemed not the way to go to me)

[ah-]

Originally Posted by Foosho

I managed to install and start-up Debian on the Kobo Touch (using the plugin interface), but the touch screen does not function properly (as was expected from the startpost)

How to do the following to fix this?

(I tried to execute xinpunt_calibrator by editing debian.sh, but it did not run and editing the .ext3 file itself seemed not the way to go to me)

Try setting up telnet or ssh via Wifi (or usbnet if you want it to be more reliable) and execute debian.sh from there. Then you get a shell and you can run "DISPLAY=:0 xinput_calibrator".