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hakim · 03-01-2015, 01:30 PM

I managed to get it working with Pocketbook Inkpad and Linux Mint. Some of the things I noticed:
* There is no package named "libxcb-shm-dev" but there is one called "libxcb-shm0-dev" in the latest Linux Mint version (I guess same goes for Ubuntu and Debian)
* My device does not have physical back button, but pressing next and previous page buttons at once seems to have done the trick. Anyway, some touchscreen buttons would be nice.
* My device resolution is 1600x1200 on 8" screen. So everything was quite tiny and it was a bit difficult to press buttons on the client interface. Some zoom/DPI option in the client or some similar hard coded option would be nice.
* Refreshing of the image via WiFi was quite slow, but that might just be because my router & internet is pretty bad right now.
* I couldn't test USB mode because there are only two USB modes on my device - "PC Link" and "Charge". I am using firmware version 4.4. Which one do you have on your device?
* When using landscape mode, "PocketBook" text on my device is upside down. It would be a bit better if landscape was rotated 180 degrees.
* Do you plan to add touch screen or mouse support on the client side?

EDIT:
* Are you using raw bitmaps or compressed images? Are you sending full color or grayscale images? It seems to redraw the images on the client side much faster when using low screen resolution and a simple black and white text is shown on the screen.
* Pressing next and previous page buttons at the same time on the client side actually crashes the server...
* Sometimes I have to manually force ereader's screen refresh by using power/sleep button
* Can you add a command line switch to the server which would enable full log printing in the console or some plain text file, so I would know exactly what it's doing?

03-01-2015, 01:30 PM	#12
hakim Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 21992 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Denmark Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 840, Sony PRS-505	I managed to get it working with Pocketbook Inkpad and Linux Mint. Some of the things I noticed: * There is no package named "libxcb-shm-dev" but there is one called "libxcb-shm0-dev" in the latest Linux Mint version (I guess same goes for Ubuntu and Debian) * My device does not have physical back button, but pressing next and previous page buttons at once seems to have done the trick. Anyway, some touchscreen buttons would be nice. * My device resolution is 1600x1200 on 8" screen. So everything was quite tiny and it was a bit difficult to press buttons on the client interface. Some zoom/DPI option in the client or some similar hard coded option would be nice. * Refreshing of the image via WiFi was quite slow, but that might just be because my router & internet is pretty bad right now. * I couldn't test USB mode because there are only two USB modes on my device - "PC Link" and "Charge". I am using firmware version 4.4. Which one do you have on your device? * When using landscape mode, "PocketBook" text on my device is upside down. It would be a bit better if landscape was rotated 180 degrees. * Do you plan to add touch screen or mouse support on the client side? EDIT: * Are you using raw bitmaps or compressed images? Are you sending full color or grayscale images? It seems to redraw the images on the client side much faster when using low screen resolution and a simple black and white text is shown on the screen. * Pressing next and previous page buttons at the same time on the client side actually crashes the server... * Sometimes I have to manually force ereader's screen refresh by using power/sleep button * Can you add a command line switch to the server which would enable full log printing in the console or some plain text file, so I would know exactly what it's doing? Last edited by hakim; 03-01-2015 at 02:03 PM.