Kobo Glo Driver for calibre 1.5

[gbm]

Originally Posted by mischl

I did already. First i renamed my plugin Folder and than the config Folder.
I even tried a new user. I tried it on KDE3 and KDE4 and also on Fluxbox and TWM.
Nothing works...

Michael

Go here and download calibre 2.1.

install using

sudo rm -rf /opt/calibre/* && sudo tar xvf /path/to/downloaded/calibre-tarball.txz -C /opt/calibre

replacing " path/to/downloaded" with where you put calibre. This will let us know if the problem is related to just calibre 2.4 or not.

Have this this suggestion from Carlos yet?

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 DICTIONARY=english KDE_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
calibre

bernie

P.S.
post the output of:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

[gbm]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

you can try

mv ~/.config/calibre/ ~/.config/calibre.bak/

and see if it still errors with a clean configuration directory.

But this sounds a lot weirder TBH.

Go and read

bernie

[mischl]

Originally Posted by gbm

Go here and download calibre 2.1.

install using

sudo rm -rf /opt/calibre/* && sudo tar xvf /path/to/downloaded/calibre-tarball.txz -C /opt/calibre

replacing " path/to/downloaded" with where you put calibre. This will let us know if the problem is related to just calibre 2.4 or not.

Have this this suggestion from Carlos yet?

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 DICTIONARY=english KDE_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
calibre

bernie

P.S.
post the output of:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

.

Hello Bernie

Sorry for the delay, i haven't seen that there is a second page of this thread allready.

I tried the 2.1 installation but without success, the Message is still the same.
When i try it with the LANG setting i get this

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 DICTIONARY=english KDE_LANG=en_US.UTF-8 calibre
QT_MESSAESSA灯⽴慣楬RN: UnknUnknਵ敡㜷〱ehol%{if%{if卪攀Rƃ-catcatecate搀+ʃ娀gory塚攀X奪if}
QString:ing:/homgument mnt mThis app appAborted

What else can i do ?

Thanks, Michael

P.s. you asked for my processor

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 2191.409
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 4382.81
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts

[theducks]

Originally Posted by mischl

.

Hello Bernie

Sorry for the delay, i haven't seen that there is a second page of this thread allready.

flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 4382.81
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts

It appears your (older, Socket A) Athelon is like mine.

No SSE2 capability

[eschwartz]

1. Download calibre 1.48 here: http://download.calibre-ebook.com/1.48.0/
2. Follow the directions here to develop from source: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/develop.html
3. Checkout branch using tag "v1.48.0"
4. Download the Kobo driver to the appropriate part of the source code: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...kobo/driver.py

[mischl]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

1. Download calibre 1.48 here: http://download.calibre-ebook.com/1.48.0/
2. Follow the directions here to develop from source: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/develop.html
3. Checkout branch using tag "v1.48.0"
4. Download the Kobo driver to the appropriate part of the source code: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...kobo/driver.py

Hello eschwartz

Thank you for this. This gives me an Idea what it takes to integrade the latest driver in an older Installation, and it tels me that it´s not possible to copy a driver into any direction and fine. I have to compile my own pached version, and this will take some time for me.

Probably it´s easier to buy a new computer when it helps ;-)

Thanks so far, i will try this as soon i have time for.

Michael

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by mischl

Hello eschwartz

Thank you for this. This gives me an Idea what it takes to integrade the latest driver in an older Installation, and it tels me that it´s not possible to copy a driver into any direction and fine. I have to compile my own pached version, and this will take some time for me.

Probably it´s easier to buy a new computer when it helps ;-)

Thanks so far, i will try this as soon i have time for.

Did you read my post on the first page? There are only two differences between the Kobo driver in 1.48 and the current calibre release: The supported firmware version has been bumped to 3.8.0 and the device ids for Aura H2O have been added. There is no functional changes unless you have a H2O. That means that for you Glo, if you do as I said in my post, you will get full support of the device with whatever firmware you have installed.

This is what you should do:

- Download and install calibre v1.48. eschwartz gave you the link.
- Start calibre.
- Open the preference, go to the Plugins section and find the KoboTouch driver.
- Open the drivers configuration and check the "Attempt to support newer firmware".
- Save the changes and connect the device.

This will work and will work for at least the next firmware version. And probably for a lot more. Kobo are not in a hurry to change the basic firmware.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by mischl

Hello eschwartz

Thank you for this. This gives me an Idea what it takes to integrade the latest driver in an older Installation, and it tels me that it´s not possible to copy a driver into any direction and fine. I have to compile my own pached version, and this will take some time for me.

Probably it´s easier to buy a new computer when it helps ;-)

Thanks so far, i will try this as soon i have time for.

Michael

Nowhere in my instructions did I say compile anything.
The compiled binaries provided by Kovid will be used. But if you set the environment variable on the development page, calibre will load the runtime python code from the source. Your distro calibre will have the source code installed and a python27 site-package placing it in your pythonpath, while relying on distro dependencies, etc. so you could download the driver there too... but ideally we use Kovid's binaries since those are supported.

But yeah, totally unnecessary AS YET if you don't have the H2O, although it may come in useful if Kobo changes the workings.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

But yeah, totally unnecessary AS YET if you don't have the H2O, although it may come in useful if Kobo changes the workings.

And I believe I have a solution for that

[mischl]

Originally Posted by davidfor

This is what you should do:

- Download and install calibre v1.48. eschwartz gave you the link.
- Start calibre.
- Open the preference, go to the Plugins section and find the KoboTouch driver.
- Open the drivers configuration and check the "Attempt to support newer firmware".
- Save the changes and connect the device.

This will work and will work for at least the next firmware version. And probably for a lot more. Kobo are not in a hurry to change the basic firmware.

Hello

I thought they would do change basic things as well

I have checked the box, but for now i have rebuild the 1.48 src.rpm for openSUSE with the latest driver includet.

Thanks eschwartz, and thank you davidfor

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by mischl

Hello

I thought they would do change basic things as well

Kobo have been concentrating on fixing bugs and making changes that don't affect the database much. Or at leas the parts of the database that the driver is using. With what they are doing, I expect the main changes I'll make for compatibility is to delete rows from an extra table when deleting a book.

Having said that, I did fix a small bug last night. I happened to notice recently that if the "Modify CSS" option was selected and the kobo_extra.css file was empty or had no valid CSS in it, the modify routine was still run. Not a real problem as the only expected problem is a little more time taken when sending the books to the device.

I have checked the box, but for now i have rebuild the 1.48 src.rpm for openSUSE with the latest driver includet.

Glad it's working. And I'll know who to come to if I need something tested i 1.48

[mischl]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Glad it's working. And I'll know who to come to if I need something tested i 1.48

Would be my pleasure

[eschwartz]

Instead of updating sources manually, you can now clone my github repository instead:

git://github.com/eli-schwartz/calibre

and checkout the WinXP-backports branch. (Yes I know it was meant for WinXP. )

git checkout -b WinXP-backports