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sibbl · 06-06-2022, 06:28 AM

I know I'm a bit late to the party but just set this up on my PW3 and it works like a charm.

However, I wonder whether it's possible to access the lipc helper utilities from the Kindle when inside the Alpine bash. I.e. I'd like to control the brightness and some other things using the lipc tools. Mounting the bin directory to the Alpine partition of course didn't work right away.

I'm currently thinking about SSH'ing from the Alpine system to the Kindle system but I think there has to be a more clever way. I also came across some lipc reverse engineering stuff which could be recompiled for Alpine but even then I'm not sure if this is supposed to work.

Thanks for any hints in advance!

06-06-2022, 06:28 AM	#55
sibbl Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2020 Device: K4, PW2, Voyage	I know I'm a bit late to the party but just set this up on my PW3 and it works like a charm. However, I wonder whether it's possible to access the lipc helper utilities from the Kindle when inside the Alpine bash. I.e. I'd like to control the brightness and some other things using the lipc tools. Mounting the bin directory to the Alpine partition of course didn't work right away. I'm currently thinking about SSH'ing from the Alpine system to the Kindle system but I think there has to be a more clever way. I also came across some lipc reverse engineering stuff which could be recompiled for Alpine but even then I'm not sure if this is supposed to work. Thanks for any hints in advance!