I have an Aura HD running 2.6.1 and did the following to install KoboLauncher and koreader:
- Installed koreader-v2013.03-266-g4f36cd2.zip from the first post in this thread.
- Installed pbchess-1.2.5_kobo_new.zip as described on the pbchess wiki, including the launcher (which I ditched for the most part - see below).
Then I tweaked as follows:
- To get koreader working without the screen artifacts and also get a reboot on pressing the -[X]- in the top right corner of FileManager, changed /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboLauncher/KoboLauncher.sh to read as follows:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
/mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboLauncher/usbnet/start.sh
/mnt/onboard/.kobo/koreader/koreader_kobo.sh /mnt/onboard
- To get better rendering of UI elements, I followed the advice in reply 82 adjusting the DPI in /mnt/onboard/.kobo/koreader/frontend/ui/screen.lua but used 212 instead of 265 which yields better results IMO.
- Fixed usbnet by modifying /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboLauncher/usbnet/start.sh as follows:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
root=/mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboLauncher/usbnet
insmod /drivers/ntx508/usb/gadget/arcotg_udc.ko
insmod /drivers/ntx508/usb/gadget/g_ether.ko
ifconfig usb0 192.168.2.101
$root/dropbear -E -r $root/host.key.rsa -d $root/host.key.dss > $root/dropbear.log 2>&1
I also noticed that the light and brightness setting don't get lost when launching koreader, so I turn on the light, adjust brightness then launch koreader.
Also, one thing that took me a while to figure is how to use koreader: pressing at the very top of a page, brings up the menu. Pressing at the very bottom brings up page, margin, line spacing and font size settings. A page setting of "scroll" gets rid of the progress bar at the top finally giving us full screen reading on the Aura.
So cool - thank you, thank you!
Light control seems to be the main missing feature to me, or at least a way for night mode to persist when koreader is launched.
Along the way, I tried
_xor's kore-launcher.zip (on 2.5.2), but it meant that the Aura HD would boot straight into koreader, so I couldn't connect to it any more. (I ended up doing a factory reset to get out of loop).