Is there a knoppix Web Kiosk?

[davea0511]

Apparently I was wrong in my previous post about the BIOS controlling sleep-mode. It turns out that sleep-mode is controlled by LiveInfo, not the BIOS, and by default sleep-mode is enabled . I know this because I currently have sleep-mode disabled while running Knoppix using the same hardware. This is what I put in my boot script to disable it:

setterm -blank 0
setterm -noblank
setterm -powersave off
xset s off
echo -n -e "\033[9;0]"

Since touchscreens are an input device, by definition they should never go to sleep (it's like having a keyboard go asleep), so I'd encourage adding these commands to the LiveInfo distribution.

[davea0511]

It seems "translucency" has a problem in Stallion and LiveInfo, but it seems like it can be easily fixed.

(for newbies: LiveInfo is based on Morphix, which allows a cool feature called "translucency". This feature theoretically allows you to simply drop in some regular files in the /copy directory when you burn your CD, so that the files in that directory will automatically overlay any files that were created from the compressed file structure. It's a real easy way to customize a distribution).

I succesfully used translucency to add support for my touchscreen driver by overlaying the XF86 files with modified ones that I put in the /copy directory of my CD. Although it worked great when I used a really old video card, when I used a newer video card (I tried 3 different ones) my computer always froze up.

So there must be a clue there: cards that are too old to recognize the initial display modes will allow me to overlay XF86 settings, but newer cards that immediately display the startup splash screen can't overlay XF86 settings. Is it possible that this translucency problem could be avoided by not using the High-Res boot screen - or removing the XF86 files in the compressed image and including them in the /copy directory instead? ...just wondering out loud.

[JureCuhalev]

Just wanted to notify you that there are new releases of LiveKiosk and LiveInfoPoint at http://www.livecd.net

Most of the problems are fixed now, and customisations are now way easier. If you miss some features or have some bug reports, don't hestitate to mail me (jure - at - livecd dot net)

[c_sp@z]

I can't seem to get the homepage to change from livecd.net and the font size buttons have tooltips that aren't in English. If I could get someone to help a n00b like me out with these two things, that would be really great. I've played with editing the prefs.js file in the .iso and moving the entire .mozilla folder from usersettings\examples\firefox to usersettings\firefox. So I now have usersettins\firefox\.mozilla with my customized prefs.js file and the homepage still loads to livecd.net.

[Ghandalfar]

tried putting just prefs.js into usersettings\firefox ?

Thanks for the tooltip bugreport

[c_sp@z]

That worked like a charm, thanks. What about those tooltips?

[Ghandalfar]

Next release is planned for end of next week.

Current todo is in wiki: http://wiki.livecd.net/livecd/LiveKioskTodo

[davea0511]

Awesome guys! I was starting to think you'd fallen off the face of the earth. I can't wait to give it another whirl.

[davea0511]

The new version of infopoint seems to have the same issues I had before - it stays frozen on the initial splash screen after the status bar completes.

As I mentioned earlier - I don't seem to have this problem when I use old video cards - but only when I use new ones.

Also, when I use old video cards, the splash screen doesn't appear. So is the splash screen causing it to freeze?

Has anyone had success running infopoint with a new video card? What motherboard and card are you using?

[Ghandalfar]

There are new versions up LiveKiosk and LiveInfo at http://www.livecd.net . We also prepared Firefox LiveCD which is LiveCD with official binary version of firefox that you can fully customize without having to base it on our custumizations.