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hawhill · 08-10-2013, 06:32 AM

;-) While one could certainly convince DirectFB to leave out the TTY part (but not advisable, keyboard input depends on this), this would just lead to the next problem: DirectFB has (AFAIK) no 4bpp framebuffer support (and that's what the K3 presents).

So this route won't likely work anyway. Or if it should ever work, that would depend on a) hacking DirectFB's input driver to work with another TTY (using a terminal emulator to gather the input and process it to a pseudo tty) or rather the K3's keyboard directly ("easier" approach); and b) hack the framebuffer driver to do 4bpp grayscale. And all this just to get a tad bit more out of links, which won't be a shiny browser even with these changes...

It's probably easier to settle for a Qt embedded solution, there are hacked up drivers floating somewhere in this forum and I remember that I compiled "arora" with it.

Or just settle for KindleVNCviewer, combined with Xvnc and any browser that uses X11. A bit strange at first sight, but should well work.

08-10-2013, 06:32 AM	#3
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	;-) While one could certainly convince DirectFB to leave out the TTY part (but not advisable, keyboard input depends on this), this would just lead to the next problem: DirectFB has (AFAIK) no 4bpp framebuffer support (and that's what the K3 presents). So this route won't likely work anyway. Or if it should ever work, that would depend on a) hacking DirectFB's input driver to work with another TTY (using a terminal emulator to gather the input and process it to a pseudo tty) or rather the K3's keyboard directly ("easier" approach); and b) hack the framebuffer driver to do 4bpp grayscale. And all this just to get a tad bit more out of links, which won't be a shiny browser even with these changes... It's probably easier to settle for a Qt embedded solution, there are hacked up drivers floating somewhere in this forum and I remember that I compiled "arora" with it. Or just settle for KindleVNCviewer, combined with Xvnc and any browser that uses X11. A bit strange at first sight, but should well work.