Koreader running on Kobos (all of them, hopefully!)

[tshering]

Originally Posted by richzz777

koreader not available with 3.0.1 !

Not sure what you exactly mean by that. For what it is worth, Koreader is running on my Touch with FW 3.0.1.

[richzz777]

Originally Posted by tshering

Not sure what you exactly mean by that. For what it is worth, Koreader is running on my Touch with FW 3.0.1.

My device is aura HD。

[hawhill]

A short interim note: The latest build, 652, is probably broken for all Kobos. The framebuffer code changed and it is probably presenting a rotated display, not reflected in the touchscreen handling.

Edit: Follow-up builds should work OK again.

[Markismus]

Good thing I was lazy today. I hadn't installed it yet!

[richzz777]

Koreader656 can run on my Aura HD with FW 3.0.0.

[Markismus]

Kobo Aura goes in Nickel standby in koreader build 656! So it seems the latest overhaul has some serious positive side effects!

I didn't realize it, until I though koreader crashed on me, without rebooting. No response, whatsoever. Pushing the power button turned the frontlight back on and voilà: everything works.

Could this mean that we can go back to Nickel from Koreader without rebooting?

Update: Now it just crashed. Not too stable this build.

[hawhill]

Going back to Nickel ought to work now - no more fiddling with framebuffer settings. I'm interested in crash logs, in any case.

[Markismus]

I've posted it in issue #301.

So what happens exactly is that

• I find the Nickel Sleepingscreen is on display with the light on.
• I pull the power button. The light goes off and a popup states: Standby.
• I pull power again. Koreader activates and light goes on.
• Kobo Aura goes in non-responsive mode rather fast (10-20s). Even if I keep changing pages.
• Pull power again go to standy and regain activity.
• Kobo Aura goes in non-responsive mode rather fast (10-20s).
• etc., etc..

Only thing to do for a working sleep function is kill the light before the Kobo Aura goes to sleep and reset Nickel sleep timer after power is back on.

[hawhill]

Ah, I think nickel still running will always interfere. On the Kindle, we "killall -stop" the framework process and after being done, we "killall -cont" it.

[Markismus]

Sergeyvl uses that for KoboLaucher, too:

# run launcher
killall -STOP nickel
$ROOT/launcher -qws -stylesheet $STYLESHEET
killall -CONT nickel

I'll try it with koreader.

[Markismus]

No reboot anymore, indeed!

I've changed koreader_kobo.sh to:

#!/bin/sh
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

# we're always starting from our working directory
cd /mnt/onboard/.kobo/koreader/

# export trained OCR data directory
export TESSDATA_PREFIX="data"

# export dict directory
export STARDICT_DATA_DIR="data/dict"

# stop Nickel
killall -STOP nickel

# finally call reader
./reader.lua /mnt/sd/.Library 1> koreader.log.`date +%s` 2>&1

# continue with nickel
killall -CONT nickel

And it works.
(If I get problems with the sleepfunction, I'll post it.)

[Ken Maltby]

I'll have to try that. Oddly, if I "killall nickel", as I did before 656, the screen display is upside down, on my AuraHD. (Not rotated exactly, the touch events are in their normal places. So I can poke at the top where the home Icon is supposed to be, not where it is on the bottom.)

I tried just remarking out the "reboot" and the home icon does get me back in nickel, but I had to poke the screen, to get a refresh, to tell where I was. {Sergey mentioned the same trouble, needing a refresh.)

Edit: tried the -STOP & -CONT switches and got the same result as just removing the "reboot" line. I'll keep this as it doesn't flip my screen image, and it should have stopped nickel, which could be almost as good as killing it.

Luck;
Ken

PS; @Markismus; killing the rest and closing the open files causes no problem.

[Ken Maltby]

I don't know if this existed before 656 but I tried adding some .png and then .jpg files but the .png didn't show in File Manager and when I select a .jpg Koreader crashes.

These are the same image files that work in the Kobo slideshow. The .png ones.

Ran the .png back through Gimp2 and exported as .jpg and now they are working without crashing Koreader, but they look pretty bad. They have 8 bit depth, I'll try 16bit and see if that works better.

Luck;
Ken

[Markismus]

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[tshering]

Originally Posted by hawhill

Going back to Nickel ought to work now - no more fiddling with framebuffer settings. I'm interested in crash logs, in any case.

Works great on my Touch. Thank you for your efforts!