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Old 10-05-2012, 11:04 AM   #196
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Looks good. Well, with a full blown X server under the hood, I'd possibly prefer some readily available X-based VNC viewer anyway... So there probably isn't much of a use case for the K5/KPW.
Yep I suppose so.

It does give me some heart that your code did the same thing SDL did when Xorg is running. I think some lua diving is in my future.

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I test my native mode apps in K4/K5 diags SSH, to avoid fighting with Xorg. For touchscreen testing, there is a diag menu item that locks the touchscreen so it does trigger accidental menu selections.

Because the K4/K5 have at least two full screens that can fit in the framebuffer, and there is a /sys/ file you can poke to set the starting Y position, you can scroll to the second buffer for native mode and use that, while everything else uses the hidden first page at offset 0 in the framebuffer. That way Xorg stays on the other side of the "fence", so no problems (but it still needs to be tested)...

I gave twobob a little screen scroller script that demos that /sys/ file.

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I want to kill my machine. I must have tried like 9 different things to get the ssh working now. All the things listed on here and some voodoo stuff.

It just won't, everytime I hear ssh over DIAGs now a shiver goes down my spine. Utterly can't comprehend it.

Back to the thrust.

Re the script. you did indeed, perhaps there is some future in swapping that "on the fly" for all K5 driven graphics apps. Don't know. more tea. with Caffeine today I think.

All in the application works great other than not actually updating the screen.

I code grab the code I suppose and have a look.

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You can update the screen with an eips loop running in the backbround (or another SSH session):

while :;do eips '';usleep 80000;done &
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heh. Actually I had tried this with prboom and it didn't help.
however tetris is working quite happily... : ) thanks for the reminder.

now... on-screen input ; )
where was that mplayer script...


Note to self. don't run it with the & while testing

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prboom (SDL) uses a mutex, waiting for Xorg to release the framebuffer. I got it working before by commenting out that framebuffer mutex wait in the SDL code... You still get little glitches now and then on the top menu bar, when the desktop writes there, but it "mostly works"... It would be better to tell Xorg to let go of the framebuffer, but we need to take what we can get.
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Ooops Miss. I was testing the tetris FB. will test this now.

EDIT: Yup, this fixes that.

Perhaps I should just go ahead and comment out the mutex in SDL and refactor.. anyway - thoughts for another thread.

now working great. thanks for the reminder. perhaps we can just drop an extra eips'' in hawhills source. I could go and have a look.

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Note to self. don't run it with the & while testing
Yeah, I prefer to have two SSH sessions, and run that command without the & in the other one. Then you can kill it with ctrl-c. No messing around with ps and kill... But if you put that loop in a script without the &, then launch that script with &, it is easy enough to find the script and kill it.
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just tested the viewer on k4, and it works perfectly! (no inverted colours this time )

thanks again hawhill, this is amazing. the vnc kindlet from the other thread lags like crazy, but this is going to be genuinely useful.

the launchpad alternatives on k4 are kite, which i've stopped using because it has quirks like running all the scripts on reboot, or cr3runner, which is a kindlet and seems to work great once properly set up. i'll share my script for cr3runner once i've tweaked it to my satisfaction.
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Oh, dang, the ioctl() for updating the eink screen is taken 1:1 from the K3 -- probably it's a bit different on the K5. However, the K4 seems to take it quite well. But that's along the lines of what you posted earlier, geekmaster: K4 in "normal" mode is very much the K3's eink driver. Is there a region-based update for the K5? I'd rather not call eips, there would likely be something like on the K3, even an ioctl() perhaps?
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this information would be useful to me also... *looks around expectantly*

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Is it possible to speedup refresh rate on mouse, say by refreshing mouse all the time in vnc no matter it moves or not? I am using DX as a 2nd display, and the slow feedback on mouse position force me to look at LCD all the time. I feel I can wait for the other part of display to come up slowly, but I have no confidence on mouse position without looking at LCD
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Oh, dang, the ioctl() for updating the eink screen is taken 1:1 from the K3 -- probably it's a bit different on the K5. However, the K4 seems to take it quite well. But that's along the lines of what you posted earlier, geekmaster: K4 in "normal" mode is very much the K3's eink driver. Is there a region-based update for the K5? I'd rather not call eips, there would likely be something like on the K3, even an ioctl() perhaps?
The K5 eink update ioctl() gets passed a data structure that is different and INCOMPATIBLE between 5.0.x and 5.1.x firmware. You cannot even use the mxcfb header file if you want compatibility with both. See my geekmaster kindle video play for an example of how I used copies of the structures instead of a header file. It works for all eink kindle models (but the paperwhite will need updates first)...

The gmplay program does not do dithering (that is done by raw2gmv, also in that thread somewhere). And raw2gmv dithers without a dither table, doing direct differential calculations of dither thresholds instead. That allows dynamic contrast and brightness adjustments, besides the fact that CPU calculations are faster than DRAM memory access table lookups in many cases on modern computers.

And please feel free to borrow my code.

But for a preliminary test, I suggesting replacing the ioctl call with system("eips ''"). That works everywere. And it even automatically selects the update type (including area updates) when it can...

Even my GMLIB code falls back to eips calls if the ioctl calls fail.

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i discovered i have to disable the k4's screensaver
Code:
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 1
if kindlevncviewer is going to be running for more than 5 minutes, otherwise i get an error message and the kindle reboots.

re-enable afterward with
Code:
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 0
obviously



edit: ok so here's the whole of my current script for running the viewer:
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#!/bin/sh
killall -stop cvm
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 1
/mnt/us/kindlevncviewer/kvncviewer.sh -password buttpipe 10.0.2.1:0
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.powerd preventScreenSaver 0
killall -cont cvm
(change the password (yours probably isn't "buttpipe") and ip address (of the computer running the vnc server) to suit your config)

i have two versions with different ip addresses for usb and wifi, and i've added the lines to my commands.txt for cr3runner:
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/mnt/us/cr3runner;kindlevncviewer-wifi;NULL;KindleVNCViewer (WiFi)
/mnt/us/cr3runner;kindlevncviewer-usb;NULL;KindleVNCViewer (USB)

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yep. its in the startup script. IIRC now... I think it might be the wrong way round. check it.

Do you get the extensions on a 4? or is it non Launcher friendly?

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err.. no its right. use the launcher then

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although I do note the lua script is missing. unsure if that is intended
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