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Old 05-25-2018, 02:22 AM   #1
valentyn
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Device: Kobo Glo HD
change hardware screen resolution

Hi all,

I had a Kobo Glo HD with a broken screen - and, without too much background info, ordered a new screen. Which is the wrong resolution :-/
Anyway, the ED060XG1 works nicely, but the screen resolution is all wrong (because a ED060KG1 is what was needed), so I only get to see the upper right corner of my Kobo display.

I'm looking around a bit on the SD card, even tried to change ntx_config to set another resolution, but this does not seem to help much.

What I did was: mv ntx_hwconfig ntx_hwconfig_orig; then a small script "ntx_hwconfig" would call "ntx_hwconfig_orig | sed 's/1072x1448/758x1024/'. This does not work: I'm still getting my right upper corner. I did make a mistake though and made ntx_hwconfig out of reach - which produced a totally garbled display, so it must do something for the screen driver, I guess...

Now I know I've been a bit silly to buy the wrong screen, but I'm still thinking: it must be possible to change the screen resolution and be back in business. Am I right? If so, how should I proceed?

Last edited by valentyn; 05-25-2018 at 02:43 AM. Reason: typo
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