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geekmaster · 01-08-2012, 04:46 AM

ixtab: you can take screenshots that get saved on the USB Drive with Alt-G, then view them on the USB Drive from a host PC to see what is on the kindle display. Although slow, it is possible to use this as a remote display replacement, especially with a host PC script that detects new screenshot files on the kindle USB Drive and displays them on the host PC.

Alternatively when you have ssh, you can just do "cat /dev/fb0 > /mnt/us/fb0.raw" to take a raw screen snapshot. You can view the raw images in IrfanView (or other program) by telling it that the raw image is 608 wide by 800 tall by 8 bits per pixel [for the Touch. On a K3, it would be 300 wide by 800 tall, and pairs of 4-bit pixels would get combined into one 8-bit pixel. Search the threads if you want to download dpavlin's conversion programs for this raw format.]

01-08-2012, 04:46 AM	#15
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	ixtab: you can take screenshots that get saved on the USB Drive with Alt-G, then view them on the USB Drive from a host PC to see what is on the kindle display. Although slow, it is possible to use this as a remote display replacement, especially with a host PC script that detects new screenshot files on the kindle USB Drive and displays them on the host PC. Alternatively when you have ssh, you can just do "cat /dev/fb0 > /mnt/us/fb0.raw" to take a raw screen snapshot. You can view the raw images in IrfanView (or other program) by telling it that the raw image is 608 wide by 800 tall by 8 bits per pixel [for the Touch. On a K3, it would be 300 wide by 800 tall, and pairs of 4-bit pixels would get combined into one 8-bit pixel. Search the threads if you want to download dpavlin's conversion programs for this raw format.] Last edited by geekmaster; 01-08-2012 at 06:25 AM.