Doesn't render UI on reMarkable v2

[dps]

I know reMarkable 2 is bleeding edge. draft (and my own apps) built against the reMarkable 1 toolchain fail to render the UI and this error comes out on stderr:

Creating window
Framebuffer has wrong id: "mxs-lcdif"

I'm mostly sharing so folks know and to see if anyone in the broader community has made more progress with rm v2. I intend to poke around more at the weekend and would love to help with any effort to get rm v2 working.

[Eeems]

We don't have the SDK for the rM2 yet, so it's unsupported as we don't have the ability to work with the framebuffer.
Eeems-Org/oxide#48
koreader/koreader#6792

[unphased]

Does any launcher exist for rM2 yet? My goal is to be able to use a USB OTG mechanical keyboard and type in a terminal emulator.

[Eeems]

I believe that some people have had some success with draft and https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer

[unphased]

Thanks! I was about to ask if https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer is the thing to watch or not. I guess short-term we would want to use r2fb with fingerterm on draft?

I was curious if ddvk's xochitl patches could work transparently along with all of this. That ought to be enough to keep me satisfied!!

[Eeems]

I don't believe draft + rm2fb + xochitl play nice yet: ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer#24

When they do, remarkable-hacks should work transparently.

[unphased]

Thanks!! Been hard for me to collect the latest info. I believe I also just found the link to the discord via the reddit page, that should help. Meanwhile I will probably take baby steps with the xochitl patching and be content playing around and noting and sketching.

[jdkruzr]

hey -- just want to see if there's been any movement on this. I'm still not entirely sure how someone is supposed to go from, for example, "zero to usable Fingerterm" on the rM2.

[dixonary]

Good news, the rm2 shim works for fingerterm. My advice is to install Toltec, and then install your launcher of choice, fingerterm and the rm2fb package. From there everything should work out of the box. :)

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[zarzen]

Good news, the rm2 shim works for fingerterm. My advice is to install Toltec, and then install your launcher of choice, fingerterm and the rm2fb package. From there everything should work out of the box. :)
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does it work for version 2.10.3.379? I have installed the draft via opkg install draft and systemctl enable --now draft.
After rebooting the device. Draft UI didn't show up, instead, the system loads the remarkable UI.

[Eeems]

does it work for version 2.10.3.379? I have installed the draft via opkg install draft and systemctl enable --now draft.
After rebooting the device. Draft UI didn't show up, instead, the system loads the remarkable UI.

rm2fb in toltec stable doesn't support 2.10.3 yet. You'll need to switch to toltec testing (toltecctl switch-branch testing), or manually download/install the packages:

wget https://toltec-dev.org/testing/rm2/display_1_0.0.10-1_rm2.ipk
wget https://toltec-dev.org/testing/rm2/rm2fb-client_1_0.0.10-1_rm2.ipk
opkg install display_1_0.0.10-1_rm2.ipk rm2fb-client_1_0.0.10-1_rm2.ipk
rm display_1_0.0.10-1_rm2.ipk rm2fb-client_1_0.0.10-1_rm2.ipk

The plan is to have the latest rm2fb in toltec stable in the next merge window, so by end of day Monday.