Tips and Tricks
General
*READING EPUB NEWS FILES* Many of us are experiencing the new firmware issue causing LRF news downloads to crash the reader when they are opened. Luckily Kovid has brought in EPUB support as a workaround. However, EPUB files crash when inline links are clicked. To avoid this, do not use inline links. Instead, if you wish to go through a news source, when you open your news, select "table of contents" instead of "begin reading". Table of Contents will have all of the articles listed by title and section, this way you don't have to use inline links to navigate the news. It is not as elegant, but it works. Posted By SkyD171
Linux
Automounting
Make sure you have properly installed and configured HAL, otherwise the auto-mounting of the PRS won't happen.
Launching calibre Automatically When the Device is Plugged-in
Under KDE you would need to install ivman. For a number of reasons, including security, best is to run ivman as user from ~/.kde/Autostart/ivman.
cd ~/.kde/Autostart && ln -s `which ivman` ivman
Make sure you edit the ~/.ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml to contain:
<ivm:Match name="hal.info.product" value="Sony Portable Reader System">
<ivm:Option name="exec" value="calibre" />
</ivm:Match>
Just after the change - you'll need to restart your window manager or just start ivman manually. On subsequent runs - it's all automatic.
Now - just plug-in the PRS-505 and Voila! - calibre pops open! Sit back and enjoy :)
Gentoo
rar files
.rar files won't get translated at this point, since rar/unrar are installed without the librar.so. This is a Gentoo issue, not a libprs500 bug.
Temporary work-around: repack the files into a .zip file, which works.
