Font, ScreenSaver & USBNetwork Hacks for Kindle 2.x, 3.x & 4.x

[gargoyle67]

@mubertmumphrey, Nice, I like that font ! is anyone planning to release it for the K3 ?
@NiLuJe, Are you saying that Adobe Garamond Premier Pro semibold in mubertmumphrey's post isn't sharp enough then and you have something similar but better ?
The Adobe Garamond looks like just the font I was after, I'm not so keen on the release fonts so far although I haven't tried all of them.

[nubreader]

@NiLuJe: i give up sir, nothing is working, not even the packages. tried the soft hack.. they wouldn't work too. i updated mine to 3.0.2 and re did the font install... still no go.. couldn't help but laugh it off

[flandroid]

Originally Posted by gargoyle67

@mubertmumphrey, Nice, I like that font ! is anyone planning to release it for the K3 ?

Unlikely. The faces are very much commercial. $35 each -- $200 for the whole set.

It's not so bad when you can write it off for work.

Edit: Whoops, I originally meant to ask mubertmumphrey -- did you try the Regular using the same conversion method? The reason I ask is that your semibold looks great, but is a bit...bold for my taste. However, your renamed OTF is showing the same characteristics as my Regular did when I converted it. If your conversion method to TTF makes the Regular look the way I wanted it to look, I may have to do it that way. I just gave up, essentially.

[hondamarlboro]

@NiLuJe: Thank you for great work as always.
As for the USBnet-0.21, "auto" restart moves to usbnetwork mode instead of usb drive mode when plug into K3 by default. But, I failed to get back to usb drive mode even if I kill process related to telnetd/sshd by usbnetwork command in terminal and message as follows:

[root@kindle root]# usbnetwork
system: I usbnetwork:def:switching from usbnet to usbms
system: I usbnetwork:def:bringing usb0 interface down
system: I usbnetwork:def:unloading g_ether module
system: I usbnetwork:def:loading g_file_storage module
system: I usbnetwork:def:stopping telnetd
system: I usbnetwork:def:cleaning stale telnetd pidfile
system: I usbnetwork:def:stopping sshd
system: I usbnetwork:def:restoring iptables config

Once "auto" restart, Can I go back to usb drive mode without renaming "auto" to "DISABLE_auto" and restart K3?

[NiLuJe]

@gargoyle67: No, that was just an example. And like flandroid said, no, it's a commercial font .

@nubreader: Huh. That's *really* weird... But thanks for all your tests anyway .

@hondamarlboro: Oh, yeah, the install may have reset the config file, I'll have to check that...

Running the usbnetwork script directly while you're connected probably won't work very well (can't unload a kernel module still in use ).

Running the ~usbNetwork private command without anything plugged and the usb network interface down should work, though.

So, right now, to switch back to usbms without restarting, I'd say try the ~usbNetwork private command without anything plugged.

I'll try to come up with something to *not* reset the config in the install process.

All that said, this is normal behaviour for a config with WIFI ON & SSHD_ONLY OFF.

EDIT: Er, oops. The install process already handles that, I just forgot to update the md5 checksums.... >_<"

EDIT²:

Bump USBNetwork to v0.22.N

* Restore the 'preserve custom config file' feature during the install process. I'd kinda forgot about it xD.

[hondamarlboro]

@NiLuJe: Thank you for prompt update as usual

I tried USBNet-0.22, but it doesn't work well under the following circumstance:

Restart after renaming DISABLED_auto to "auto" on Kindle3
WIFI=true, SSHD_ONLY=false in /mnt/us/usbnet/etc/config
telnet/ssh works well

To switch back to usb mode, I hit ;debgubOn and ~usbNetwork without usb plug cable
But K3 doesn't switch to usb mode after usb cable plugged.

Something wrong with my setting? or this is normal?

[NiLuJe]

@hondamarlboro: Nope, nothing wrong with your settings, and it should work. But this vaguely reminds me of a similar issue on a K2 that led me to switch the 'auto' mode off by default, so I'll check this out, try to find out what's wrong...

EDIT: Should be fixed with v0.23.N .

[parazhang]

Hi,NiLuJe:

I upgraded my kindle DXG following by your guide,every step worked as it should do,but I still cannot read chinese character.

According to your v3.9.N changlog--
Update the CJK.ttf font (Droid Fallback). Supports even more Chinese glyphs.

So I am really wondered about this,I can see that the CJK.ttf and I18N.ttf are in the fonts directory.Do I need to do more steps to see the Chinese character,such as copy some other fonts in the fonts dir and modify configuration files?

Thanks in advance.

[NiLuJe]

@parazhang: You're not on FW 3.x, there's no official CJK & I18N support. So these font files are not used by your device at all. If you want CJK support, you'll have to setup them the old way, (ie. with CJK fonts as the Serif_* family).

[NiLuJe]

Bump USBNetwork to v0.23.N

* Workaround the 'nothing exported over USB MS' issue when using the autostart feature, and trying to switch back to usbms via the usbNetwork private command. (We're now autostarted very late, after the framework, instead of very early way before the framework runlevel).

(If you're using the auto feature, you might want to do a proper full restart after installing this update ).

On a sidenote, you know you've spent too much time tweaking usbnetwork, when, after only

06:53:45 up 7 days

your kernel kindly reminds you that

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 97

usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 15

and

scsi53 : usb-storage 6-1:1.0

... xD

[parazhang]

Hi,NiLuJe:

what is the meaning of "ie. with CJK fonts as the Serif_* family"? Did you mean to copy CJK.ttf 4 times to Serif_*.ttf?
Any links or background posts are there?

BTW,I am satisfied with the effect with the native fonts when reading English material,want let the kindle DXG to run the chinese characters on webpages.

Thanks you so much,man.
Regards.

[NiLuJe]

@parazhang: Yep, that would do it (By Serif_*, I mean Serif_Regular, Serif_Bold, etc. Check the firts post for the full proper naming scheme).

And yep, there are a bunch of info on this right in this thread, do a search by messages .

Note that if you want CJK support in the browser, you might have to switch the other two families (Sans, Mono) with CJK-aware fonts too.

[parazhang]

I can see Sans,Mono,Serif all in the fonts dir.
1,How to switch to the others?
2,I have an idea by step1--Can I add/copy android fallback(seems support Chinese) to the fonts dir and let webpages involve it solely withour affect others.

Regards.

[NiLuJe]

@parazhang:

1/ Check the docs. (6 AM here, I don't really feel the need to repeat myself right now ^^)

2/ If you want to switch *only* the browser fonts, you'll have to tweak the linkfonts/etc/netfront.ini file yourself. By default, the hack uses the same fonts for everything. (system, reader & browser).

[parazhang]

Hi,NiLuJe:
Thanks a lot,take your time.I will try.

All the best.