iLiad Replacing the contentlister - Page 2

narve · 06-17-2007, 04:13 PM

Hi Scotty, did you get the rshd to work properly? And what is the current status? I'd like to give it a test, can you pm me a link or something?

Regarding bricking concerns: Why don't you release the sources to the content lister but not the modifications to start.sh etc? Then people can try the content lister by ssh'ing in, killing the iRex content lister and starting the java-based one.

CommanderROR · 06-20-2007, 06:03 PM

Good idea narve...

The contenlister relacement is a nice one and something I would also love to try once it's fairly safe and easy to install.
The current UI is pretty cumbersome and it uses up lots of space to deliver very little info...

nekokami · 06-21-2007, 11:43 AM

Would the contentlister be a good place to implement an auto-shutoff feature? Hopefully that the user could configure? I accidentally left my reader on twice this week (doctor's office visits, both times) and drained the battery on the first one. I often leave it on if I think I'm going to want to read again within the next half hour or so, because of the slow boot, but I'd like to be able to set it to shut off after 30 minutes of inactivity.

narve · 06-22-2007, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nekokami

Would the contentlister be a good place to implement an auto-shutoff feature? Hopefully that the user could configure? I accidentally left my reader on twice this week (doctor's office visits, both times) and drained the battery on the first one. I often leave it on if I think I'm going to want to read again within the next half hour or so, because of the slow boot, but I'd like to be able to set it to shut off after 30 minutes of inactivity.

Yes, this is on the top of my wishlist too! Extremely stupid thing to not implement... it gotta be easy for iRex to fix this!

CommanderROR · 06-22-2007, 06:32 AM

Once the reflashing option is there, maybe somebody can just replace the whole OS with a fresher Linux revision...:behead:
Maybe that would already help make things eaiser...then optimized all the code and you'll have a far better Iliad...but I guess that would be taking things a bit too far even with reflahs option and of course there might be driver problems.

tribble · 06-22-2007, 06:59 AM

Well, 2.6 kernel would probably be much more efficient in terms of powermanagement, but the problem are the devicedrivers.

Maybe we will see a book firmware, which uses all power management options of the processor and just doesnt use anything else but the display. Who knows.

scotty1024 · 06-22-2007, 03:58 PM

The 2.6 kernel is held up by the proprietary devices that iRex chose to use: MTD and WiFi. Oh yeah and we can add a couple iRex proprietary devices to that list as well since they won't release the source.

All I can figure about the re-flash at this point is that iRex is going to say the hardware has an issue and they were unable to implement the re-flash tool because of it. Nothing else I can think of can explain why it hasn't been released.

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06-17-2007, 04:13 PM	#16
narve iLiad fan Posts: 210 Karma: 3864 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: iRex iLiad	Hi Scotty, did you get the rshd to work properly? And what is the current status? I'd like to give it a test, can you pm me a link or something? Regarding bricking concerns: Why don't you release the sources to the content lister but not the modifications to start.sh etc? Then people can try the content lister by ssh'ing in, killing the iRex content lister and starting the java-based one.

06-20-2007, 06:03 PM	#17
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	Good idea narve... The contenlister relacement is a nice one and something I would also love to try once it's fairly safe and easy to install. The current UI is pretty cumbersome and it uses up lots of space to deliver very little info...

06-21-2007, 11:43 AM	#18
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Would the contentlister be a good place to implement an auto-shutoff feature? Hopefully that the user could configure? I accidentally left my reader on twice this week (doctor's office visits, both times) and drained the battery on the first one. I often leave it on if I think I'm going to want to read again within the next half hour or so, because of the slow boot, but I'd like to be able to set it to shut off after 30 minutes of inactivity.

06-22-2007, 06:32 AM	#20
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	Once the reflashing option is there, maybe somebody can just replace the whole OS with a fresher Linux revision...:behead: Maybe that would already help make things eaiser...then optimized all the code and you'll have a far better Iliad...but I guess that would be taking things a bit too far even with reflahs option and of course there might be driver problems.

06-22-2007, 06:59 AM	#21
tribble iLiad Maniac Posts: 1,382 Karma: 2369 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Germany Device: Bookeen Opus (i love that thing) and iPad (what an irony)	Well, 2.6 kernel would probably be much more efficient in terms of powermanagement, but the problem are the devicedrivers. Maybe we will see a book firmware, which uses all power management options of the processor and just doesnt use anything else but the display. Who knows.

06-22-2007, 03:58 PM	#22
scotty1024 Banned Posts: 1,300 Karma: 1479 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Peoples Republic of Washington Device: Reader / iPhone / Librie / Kindle	The 2.6 kernel is held up by the proprietary devices that iRex chose to use: MTD and WiFi. Oh yeah and we can add a couple iRex proprietary devices to that list as well since they won't release the source. All I can figure about the re-flash at this point is that iRex is going to say the hardware has an issue and they were unable to implement the re-flash tool because of it. Nothing else I can think of can explain why it hasn't been released.

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