Kiosk-style web browser

A. Craig West acraigwest at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 03:21:12 CET 2017


How is the f2fs filesystem created? I can't figure out how that part
of the build works...

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Ronny Nilsson
<rln-nard at arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> -----------------------------------------
>> 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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