[fastrobot]

Hi,

There are several programs which run on the kobo reader and take it over, such as debian linux, or andriod, etc. And I was wondering if anyone had a program that is able to save the state of the framebuffer, eg; save the orientation, and data on the frame-buffer, and restore them -- so that switching between kobo reader mode, and these alternate systems could be done on the fly, rather than having to reboot and pull or insert an sd card?

I've written a virtual terminal that runs on my Kobo GLO, that I want to be able to run alternately with nickel; It's a vt52 emulator with unicode capability, international morse code keyboard interface that allows all control, alt, shift, keys and all characters on a vt52 keyboard to be produced without ever having to draw a vitual keyboard onscreen; including an extra xterm SGR mode mouse ( xterm mode 1006 ) which means full linux compatibilty for command line programs that run in an x-terminal under curses; eg: vim, emacs, etc. including cut and paste.

I set it up to proxy the touch-screen driver under /dev/input/event1 -- so that I can steal screen touches before nickel gets them and still pass them on to nickel if I don't want them; which allows me to catch an escape sequence that nickel happily ignores; so that I can use this gesture to launch a script to change modes between virtual terminal and nickel, and back again. I just need a program that can save and load the framebuffer so that I can complete the switch -- and I'd rather not re-invent it, if a program already exists.

Also, I have another issue,
I'd like my terminal program to be able to work with an extenal keyboard as well; and because of that, I bought an android external USB keyboard, and an adapter to plug in into kobo's USB OTG slot;
It does plug in just fine, but the KOBO kernel does not recognize the keyboard as it causes no dmesges at all -- Do I need to load a kernel driver, or something, and if so -- which one ?