Glo screensaver kobo Glo

[Cecell3000]

Hi,

I'm using custom screensaver in the firmware 3.1.1 and it works very well.


site:http://minutodroid.blogspot.com/2014...-kobo-glo.html

but it does not work on 3.2.0 firmware.
is there any way to use in firmware 3.2.0?

another question:
in the firmware 3.2.0 I can not use "/ usr / local / Kobo / pickel showpic" (tested with telnet) , anyone know how to use with firmware 3.2.0 ?


EDIT:
now works correctly


Thanks.

sorry English (google translator)

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[tshering]

Originally Posted by Cecell3000

another question:
in the firmware 3.2.0 I can not use "/ usr / local / Kobo / pickel showpic" (tested with telnet) , anyone know ho

Interestingly, another Glo owner has also reported this problem. But if pickel showpic does really not work on Glo, I wonder what for instance happens to the on-animation, which uses pickel showpic. Aren't there the dancing squares visible on the Glo when you power it on?

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Cecell3000

but it does not work on 3.2.0 firmware.
is there any way to use in firmware 3.2.0?

Apart from not seeing the pictures, how do you see that it is not working. Did you try to write to a log file instead of showing pictures?

I wonder whether you still use the script that Marcelo Silva posted elsewhere. There he saves the rotation used by nickel

#evita bug na instalacao acidental firmware 3.2.0
currentRotation=$(cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate)

and later on he restores it

#evita bug na instalacao acidental firmware 3.2.0
echo "$currentRotation" > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate

In between of these two points however, he doesn't seem to change the rotation. But I think you should do so, before calling png2raw or pickel. See this post

[Cecell3000]

Originally Posted by tshering

Interestingly, another Glo owner has also reported this problem. But if pickel showpic does really not work on Glo, I wonder what for instance happens to the on-animation, which uses pickel showpic. Aren't there the dancing squares visible on the Glo when you power it on?

when using pickel, nothing happens in the physical screen, but appears in the screenshot image (with wrong rotation)


part of the screenshot, appears only in the physical screen, after using the menus

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Cecell3000

when using pickel, nothing happens in the physical screen, but appears in the screenshot image (with wrong rotation)


part of the screenshot, appears only in the physical screen, after using the menus

Did you read my second post (about rotation; post #5)?

[Lucas Malor]

The problems are three:

1. Screen is rotated, but input areas are not. For example, if you go to the home and give this command:
   
   PHP Code:

   echo "1" > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/rotate 

   and touch the top-left corner of the screen, the home icon changed as it was clicked and screen is refreshed. The problem is the screen is rotated by 180°, and home icon is on the bottom-right corner.
2. If you try the same thing with echo "0" or "2", ie portrait mode, display is completely messed up.
3. if you do
   
   PHP Code:

   zcat /etc/images/kraken-on-0.raw.gz  | /usr/local/Kobo/pickel showpic 

   and touch the top-left corner, nothing happens. If you touch instead the top-right corner, screen is refreshed only for the top of the screen, the same thing that the settings menu does. So pickel rotate the screen by 90° without rotating input areas, but things are messed up much more. Image is not displayed even if you rotate the screen by any angles.

[tshering]

Originally Posted by Lucas Malor

The problems are three:

Since there is no touch input, when the device is in sleep state, I cannot see how these problems are related here.

[Lucas Malor]

I reported them for completeness. The more important info is in the last phrase:

Originally Posted by Lucas Malor

(pickel) Image is not displayed even if you rotate the screen by any angles.

And I would add that the screen is not refreshed when you change the orientation. I think that the solution is to find a way to refresh the screen using the shell. The problem is that refreshing is changed by firmware update. Also the Night Mode plugin doesn't refresh the screen anymore.

[Lucas Malor]

Ok, I created a program that refreshes the screen, using the Night Mode code. If you run it after pickel, you can see the image.

There's no exception handling and parameters checking, so use at your own risk.

Now the question is: why my program works and refresh in Night Mode not?

[tshering]

Just to add some information: pickel shows images correctly, as long as nickel has not been started. As soon as nickel has been started, the images don't show, even after killing nickel. Qt executables for instance, can however use the screen normally (even while nickel is runnng).

[Lucas Malor]

I think that the refresh can be performed also sending a buffer to a /sys device. I'm reading drivers/video/mxc/mxcfb_auo.c in Glo linux kernel, and there's an "update" sysfs interface for the store_update() function, that does a full refresh. But

PHP Code:

find /sys -name update 


gives me no result. Do you have any ideas?

[Cecell3000]

Originally Posted by Lucas Malor

Ok, I created a program that refreshes the screen, using the Night Mode code. If you run it after pickel, you can see the image.

There's no exception handling and parameters checking, so use at your own risk.

Now the question is: why my program works and refresh in Night Mode not?

thank you!
now custom screensaver works on firmware 3.2.0 kobo glo

[hleo12]

Finally found this thread!!!

Is anybody else still using this?

How about on firmware 3.5?

I'd really love to have screen savers on my glo