Kiosk-style web browser

Ronny Nilsson rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org
Thu Jan 5 15:48:15 CET 2017


Try re-flashing the SD card with the raw image 
	nard/images/sdcard.img.gz
to fix the F2FS problem. Something must have become wrong when creating the 
initial filesystem.
/Ronny


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> I was correct about USB Keyboard support, I added USB HID support and
> the keyboard works in the console. Don't know what the f2fs problem
> is, though...
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:22 PM, A. Craig West <acraigwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I mostly have this part working now, although I have a few issues. I
> > added: tty1::askfirst:/bin/cttyhack /bin/login
> > to /etc/inittab, and it boots with the console, although I didn't have
> > keyboard (I probably have to enable usb keyboard one way or another,
> > and I don't really need it...)
> > I will probably have to change it  anyways to make it automatically
> > boot into the browser in any case, instead of running a login session.
> >
> > The problem I am having is the f2fs filesystem. dmesg gives:
> > [    6.077160] F2FS-fs (mmcblk0p2): Magic Mismatch, valid(0xf2f52010)
> > - read(0x65202d20)
> > [    6.077177] F2FS-fs (mmcblk0p2): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem
> > in 1th superblock
> > [    6.101916] F2FS-fs (mmcblk0p2): Magic Mismatch, valid(0xf2f52010)
> > - read(0x313a3830)
> > [    6.101928] F2FS-fs (mmcblk0p2): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem
> > in 2th superblock
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Ronny Nilsson
> >
> > <rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> The standard Linux console works just fine at HDMI. The main issue is to
> >> re-enable it in the kernel build configuration. Here is quick
> >> mini-guide:
> >>
> >> $ cd nard/apps/linux-kernel
> >> $ make menuconfig
> >>         enable Virtual Terminals
> >>         enable Framebuffer Console support
> >>         enable Map the console to the primary display device
> >>
> >> Add
> >>         console=tty1
> >> to /boot/cmdline.txt
> >>
> >> Add
> >>         tty1::askfirst:/bin/login
> >> to /etc/inittab
> >>
> >>
> >> This is from the top of my head. I might have missed some minor detail.
> >>
> >> /Ronny
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------
> >>
> >>> I haven't tried it yet, but I would expect that standard linux
> >>> framebuffer console output would work
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:48 PM, rbarreiros at gmail.com
> >>>
> >>> <rbarreiros at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > How about console output through HDMI?
> >>> >
> >>> > On 3 Jan 2017 21:32, "Ronny Nilsson" <rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> >> > Does nard output to HDMI ?? Last I heard it didn't! Is it hard to
> >>> >> > do so? Just a kernel module compile?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The framebuffer is available as default, but you need to provide
> >>> >> something that draw to it yourself. The "fbi" image viewer is
> >>> >> provided which can display JPEG images to the HDMI output. Just
> >>> >> build the "mediaplayer" example
> >>> >> product. There should be an image shown on the display when the
> >>> >> system boots.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> /Ronny




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