Is there a knoppix Web Kiosk?

**uuccu** · 02-25-2005, 05:07 PM

Ahhh cool thanks that will save some hastle, another question then...

Is it possible to just copy the contents of the CD to a linux partition? will it boot? Is remastering only required if you want to make changes to the CD and end up with a CD? Im just wondering as Ill be using lower spec machines and would imagine having Stallione or LiveInfo CD running from HDD instead of CD would make it faster?

Any easy way to get the CD onto a hdd if remastering is required

Many thanks again

**DarrylM** · 03-01-2005, 01:13 AM

Live Info 2.6 is exactly what I have been trying to do with my Ham-Fisted efforts, well done to all concerned.

I've spent a few days now (don't want to admit to how many, its embarassing) trying to get it booting from a 256MB USB stick. My Linux knowledge is poor but through trial and error I have got DSL and Knoppix booting from the stick nicely, but LiveInfo won't seem to recognise the USB stick, and keeps falling over "looking for CDROM"

I've used syslinux instead of GRUB - is that the problem?
Is the USB support built into the release - or do I have to add it in ?
If so ... how? Hopefully this does not involve rebuilding the kernel - which I've no idea about how to do and, quite frankly, scares me!

Any help from someone knowing more about this than me greatly appreciated.

**c_pd** · 03-10-2005, 02:53 AM

Does anyone know how to set konqueror up to go back to the homepage when the screensaver comes on or when inactive?

**c_pd** · 03-10-2005, 03:26 AM

empress101 did you get an answer? I think I saw that earlier in the post. I believe the answer was to remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you create the compressed fs

**empress101** · 03-10-2005, 04:17 PM

Thank you for asking

hehe ..yes i did it ! YAAAA!

I finally have it working in the end..

I will write a guide to how I did it. and will post on forum to help anyone else with similar problem and need.

You can follow some of it from the other post were much was worked out.
here http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16992

I basically needed a kiosk desk that booted immediatley into kiosk mode, bringing up the browser to a specific site on one of our servers. And everything else was to be locked out. This disc is to be able to boot into anyone of our machines.

I changed some stuff like edited some of the .jar files for browser(wanted different throbber and title icon) also had to disable the F11 key.

Plus wanted to shrink the size of the disk and a few other things.

I managed to do all that but when remastered and made my .iso image to burn. The cd only worked on that specific machine.

But after much trial and error, also the help off of here and out of book(Knoppix Hacks) figured it out and was finally able to make cd that booted to any machine.

Thank all much for all your help and hints that lead me to SUCCES!

I will write up as I said at top a how to for others and post it.

**Quarky** · 03-11-2005, 11:11 PM

ok, i have my homepage of choice when booting up.
what Im trying to find out is how do I take off the setting where it overides the fonts on webpages displayed?

I need stallion to display whatever fonts the webpages calls for. I couldn't find the pref setting for it. I only know how to do it in windows under tools and fonts & color but tools is disabled and there must be a pref line for it.

thanks.

**Ghandalfar** · 03-12-2005, 02:26 AM

just edit prefs.js ; see how windows version changes it and then do the same for your prefs.js

**ComputerX** · 03-17-2005, 10:16 PM

Has anyone gotten one of these CDs working with wireless? Specifically I have Intel 2200 based cards.

Thanks,

Dan

**davea0511** · 03-24-2005, 08:14 AM

I've got my 100% Flash application working with LiveInfo on my touchscreen and it's mostly (see problems below) looking good - not bad for a linux newbie, eh? Two huge problems left though, and unfortunately they are both show-stoppers for a touch-screen kiosk application:

1) My LCD goes into power-save mode every 10 minutes or so after inactivity. To make sure it wasn't my LCD montior I also plugged my CRT into it - but I had the same problem so it looks like its caused by LiveInfo (I also checked my BIOS setting to make sure). How do I turn off the power-save feature? With regard to touchscreens this problem is like having your keyboard vanish after it sits idle for a time.

2) Whenever I touch the touchscreen an annoying cursor is left where I touched it. How's the easiest way to get rid of it or make it invisible? Anyone? Bhueller? Preferably with a easy hack like putting an invisible cursor somewhere in the /copy/ directory?

That said, I want to compliment Skrat and Gandalfar and the rest of their team on an incredibe Morphix based LiveCD. This "translucency" feature of Morphix makes it very easy for newbies like myself to customize (I did it all on RedHat9). It looks easier than doing it with knoppix (I also have the "Knoppix Hacks" book), and it's small enough to fit on a cheap solid-state (silent) flash-IDE drive.

But these two show-stoppers must be resolved if this is to be used for touchscreens.

-dave0511

ps - my iso automatically installs the magictouch touchscreen driver which is by far the cheapest way to add touchscreen functionality to your hardware. let me know if you want a copy of the iso: davea0511 ~ at ~ yahoo.com