I compiled LinkX on a deb chroot kindle Keyboard and would like to use Graphics Mode

[kindletop]

Running debian chroot taken from here, https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...87&postcount=9 with emdebian repositories.

I'm not too well versed in what I am attempting to do. I am running myts8 and compiled LinkX with graphics mode enabled and some kind of framebuffer plugin called DirectFB 1.2.10 since my limited understanding tells me this is the likely path to get it to work.

However when running (It make installs as "links" for some reason)

# links -g

I get

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2012-05-20 16:00)
(!) DirectFB/core/vt: Couldn't open neither '/dev/tty0' nor '/dev/vc/0'!
    --> No such file or directory
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system_core' core!
    --> Initialization error!

/dev/tty does exist but it doesn't seem to select that, will figuring out how to pick tty make it work? Is what I'm trying to do even possible?

All I want is a better web browser for my kindle 3 than the one included under "experimental" with the ability to download and also display images. (Maybe even automatically open up mplayer when clicking a media link)

[twobob]

okay you need to nerf the TTY stuff IIRC. There isn't one.
There's a big pile of drivel about that from me on here somewheres but in essence its a virtual TTY (I think).

Hawhill might have a whizz bang solution for it but it might just need need a patch/wangle/nerf in the code.



as for initializing directFB stuff...

It's been a while but:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...76&postcount=7

from this thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=148339

may hold some answers.
It's a bit of a tricky area but I got a few things running no problems.


Also: please do us all a favour and put the TYPE of kindle in your profile

"Kindle" doesn't tell me much.
Hope that helps. (I noted you mentioned a 3 in the thread btw)

[hawhill]

;-) While one could certainly convince DirectFB to leave out the TTY part (but not advisable, keyboard input depends on this), this would just lead to the next problem: DirectFB has (AFAIK) no 4bpp framebuffer support (and that's what the K3 presents).

So this route won't likely work anyway. Or if it should ever work, that would depend on a) hacking DirectFB's input driver to work with another TTY (using a terminal emulator to gather the input and process it to a pseudo tty) or rather the K3's keyboard directly ("easier" approach); and b) hack the framebuffer driver to do 4bpp grayscale. And all this just to get a tad bit more out of links, which won't be a shiny browser even with these changes...

It's probably easier to settle for a Qt embedded solution, there are hacked up drivers floating somewhere in this forum and I remember that I compiled "arora" with it.

Or just settle for KindleVNCviewer, combined with Xvnc and any browser that uses X11. A bit strange at first sight, but should well work.

[twobob]

ah.

Good info.

Thanks