Thread: Announce: Recovery Console Mode in Extras-Devel
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2011-05-28 , 19:07
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Originally Posted by sourcedriver View Post
Indeed. After searching the forums for a way to implenent a framebuffer console I found Mentalist Traceur's post. I followed the instructions exactly and I'm happy to say it is working.
Yay, more people found my stuff useful.

Originally Posted by sourcedriver View Post
I have two questions though.

1. I still don't understand how to generate the correct kmap file from pali's code.
You need to use the command "loadkmap" with the "-b" flag (if you look at the Makefile in pali's code, it has the syntax in it). Don't ask me where to get it the loadkmap binary for armel (or any architecture) that supports the -b flag. Busybox-power doesn't come with it, and as far as iDont (the maker and maintainer of Busybox-Power) knew about a week or so ago, busybox as a whole didn't include it. I've tried to grab some debian packages precompiled for armel that had loadkeys as a command, BUT, neither of the ones I tried had the "-b" flag as an option.

Originally Posted by sourcedriver View Post
2. Scrolling console text is very sexy. When the bootmenu screen enters and exits there is a lot of graphics tearing, not so sexy. Might there be a way to fix this?
Not that I know of. I have R&D mode enabled on my N900 and the boot screen it shows right after also gets torn by framebuffer console output. *Shrug*