Just like the title says I want to turn an old tablet of mine into an ereader.

The tablet in question is samsung galaxy tab 3 in which I installed postMarketOS.

I installed the console version, and once everything was set up I ssd into the machine and installed the following packages :

greetd, greetd-openrc, cage, fuse

Downloaded koreader app image into /bin/

Activated the greetd service

rc-update add greetd default

and configured /etc/greetd/config.toml with the following

[terminal]

vt = 1

[default_session]

command="agreety -c sh"
user="greeter"

[initial_session]

command="cage -s -d -- koreader"
user="me"

and rebooted the tablet, however I am still stuck with the login prompt no matter what I do.

Any tips on how fix this or a other way I could accomplish my goal?

    • ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Yeah let’s just say that android 4.x isn’t that great.

      Could try to flash a custom ROM with a more up-to-date version of android but the 1GB of ram would not help.

      Going for the minimal solution with KOreader and Alpine/PostMarketOS might be the best way to bring this buddy back to an useful state.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Very interesting project. Cage is a wayland kiosk, right?

    But what about doing system updates and stuff like shutting down? KOReader doesnt have such an interface

    • ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Updates I can ssh into the thing since WiFi is working and turn off I use the power button might have to change some devrules because now it’s long press is mapped to reboot a single nothing, but that should be about it.

      * Yeah cage is an Wayland kiosk, and for what I tested in my main machine runs KOreader with no problem and should have a virtual keyboard.

  • cow@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    App images don’t work on alpine. Use flat pack or run the app image in a chroot

    • ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      mmm I am now reading on the whole shbangle related to AppImages, will switch to flapak. Been trying for now to get a simple echo to work will address the rest later. Gotta get back to it tomorrow, thanks for the warning !!!