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Also, when you do your restart, are you physically disconnecting the usb plug? Last edited by GoSharks; 02-03-2013 at 12:11 PM. |
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Something I noticed, when it works, in the linkss folder, a file mounted_ss(or something like that) appears. That only happens when i restart the framework (with the JBPatch). I'm not sure what is happening here but its strange. |
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02-03-2013, 01:58 PM | #426 |
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Go ahead and reinstall JBPatch (if you want it), they do all play nicely with each other - promise! Welcome to MR by the way.... here's some K for perseverance!
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Thanks from me too (kpw 5.3.3, jbpatch already working).
I re-installed many times with no results... The trick had been to uninstall linkss 0.7.N and then installing one more. works like a charm! |
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god I suck I don't know what the heck I did but everytime I try to put anything in the links/screensavers folder (a png, a blank cover file) and reboot it gets deleted.
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Something is wrong with the file you are trying to use. Try again with a file known to work on your device (which you did not mention). |
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lol somehow I missed reading that far I just assumed if the cover was sent tagged in calibre everything would work without having to resize and stuff. |
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I feel dumb... but can I put more than 1 file in the links/screensavers folder and set which one I want as fixed screensaver? (with 1 file only, mine already works btw)
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OK, so I looked at the screensaver hack and recoiled in horror when I found that every time you switch books (in cover mode) it's copying the current cover to ${LINKSS_BASEDIR}/screensavers/bg_{medium,small}_xs00.png. This is not going to have a good impact on Flash life at all (I know, it's not so important these days, but I'm a systems programmer and that means I'm a professional paranoid; I even found myself worrying about what would happen if power went out during all those writes and had to remind myself the Kindle has a battery! but I really do care about Flash life on a device as important as my entire library).
A possibly-stupid suggestion off the top of my head for fixing this. At bin/linkss time, mount a tmpfs on $LINKSS_BASEDIR/ss-internal and bind-mount *that* over /usr/share/blanket/screensaver (rather than directly bind-mounting the screensavers dir as now), and when you have to switch a screensaver, drop an absolute symlink in the tmpfs pointing at the screensaver you want to use (/mnt/us/linkss/whatever). Now the total number of Flash writes per in-cache book switch is *zero*. It would be faster too, since Flash writes are slow. Am I missing some obvious reason why this wouldn't work? Last edited by NullNix; 02-09-2013 at 07:50 PM. |
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Sorry to have to ask, but I've installed everything the way I have been told to. All my screensavers are in the correct place, and have the correct dimensions/file type. I've rebooted my device twice, but I'm still getting the exact same built in screensaver that I always have had. None of mine are making an appearance on the Paperwhite screen. Anybody know why this is?
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