Latest revision as of 22:09, 17 March 2013

Last reviewed on: 2011-09-26

This page describes how I use my phone. Feel feel to copy these ideas and suggest improvements. You can reach me at timo.lindfors@iki.fi or as lindi- on ircnet, freenode or oftc. Please consider adding Cc: to e.g. smartphones-userland@linuxtogo.org if you feel that also others might want to see your question/comment.

Btw, John Sullivan and Timo Jyrinki have similar pages.

[edit] Hardware

gta02V7 (previously used buzzfixed gta02V5)
invisible shield(tm) for the screen
4 GB microSD card
Universal USB Power Car Adapter (1000mA)
Rechargeable USB Emergency Power Backup Pack 2400mAh
Rechargeable USB Emergency Power Backup Pack 1000mAh
USB gender changer for connecting USB devices to the phone without special cables
mobile USB hub
Huawei E169 USB 3G stick
multiple SIM cards from my provider. I can answer calls with both my nokia phone and openmoko but only one phone can be configured to receive SMS.
Cable Style Dual-Power 1000mA USB 2.0 4-Port Hub, lets me charge the phone and still have the phone work as an USB host
USB to RS232 Serial Port Adapter (Transparent Green)
USB A-Female to Mini USB 5-Pin Female Adapter, for connecting wall charger to the USB hub
openmoko debug board V3
openmoko headset, not used much since I don't want to break it and buzzfix does not work with it anyway
gta02V5 with buzzfix
gta02V7 with broken AUX button
four openmoko batteries
USB 10/100 RJ45 Ethernet Network Adapter Dongle. Beware, this triggers a bug (#2310 charging N900 with gta02 causes the gta02 to overheat) but can be worked around if you supply power to USB bus by some other means (for example with the "Cable Style Dual-Power 1000mA USB 2.0 4-Port Hub" mentioned above).
full-body invisible shield(tm) installed to the second phone
4-Pin 2.5mm to 3.5mm Stereo Audio Jack Convertor
Virtual 5.1-Surround USB 2.0 External Sound Card
C03U - Multi-Pattern USB Studio Condenser Microphone (only tested once, I don't own one)

[edit] Software

[edit] Boot loader

qi 20100107-1 (now in debian sid!)
mmcblk0p1 and mmcblk0p2 both have /boot so that I can have a fallback kernel with Qi just in case

[edit] Kernel

linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02 20101212.git049b71de-2 from pkg-fso

[edit] Userland

Generally I try to use Debian GNU/Linux unstable with as little software from other sources as possible. I'm quite conservative and try to stick to known-to-work programs (currently unsure about bleeding edge stuff like E17 window manager, vala programming language and Qi).

Also note that I run my X programs as a normal user. I used to run Xorg as non-root too but that not work very well.

[edit] programs from debian main

Xorg
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev for reliable graphics output (xserver-xorg-video-glamo will hopefully replace this soon! #2294 xf86-video-glamo: stopping X can crash the whole system (not even JTAG works))
xdm as display manager
xvkbd as virtual keyboard
xterm as terminal emulator
elinks and midori for browsing the web
ssh to connect home to IRC and use email
icewm as window manager
gpsd for talking to GPS
watchdog for making sure that I can recover from kernel crash without having to remove battery.
dates as calendar
omhacks for accessing openmoko specific hardware features

[edit] programs for reliable GSM calls

I do not use whole FSO frameworkd for reliability reasons involved around dbus. At present I also don't use the debian packages of frameworkd so that I can more easily test different upstream versions. NOTE: many programs here are not documented and not really ready to be packaged.

Related bug reports:

The actual software in use:

gsm_ac_gp_fd_pu_em_cph_ds_vc_cal35_ri_36_amd8_ts0-Moko11b1 firmware for the Calypso GSM device
gsmhandset-lindi.state for configuring ALSA for calls.
gsm0710muxd abcbcd7cc532a8834906de3fc24c8f8fe7643cd4 for multiplexing data to Calypso
ogsmd module of frameworkd e6c36e917cc75809f60fa587b68bbf6be0c5bf58 for actually talking to Calypso (Note that I am not using other modules of frameworkd for reliability reasons)
kapula for making calls. I start it with options --popup-sms --no-oeventsd --no-ousaged --logfile --no-request-gsm-on-startup
answering-machine for receiving calls and playing the ringtone. This lets me answer calls with AUX button even if X is dead.
gsm-watchdog for periodically checking that everything works and forcibly restarting gsm0710muxd, ogsmd and answering-machine if something is wrong.
a really messy suspend script that tells ogsmd to tell Calypso to be quiet when we are in suspend.
dump-sms for reading SMS and smsl for sending then via the web page of my operator. As you can imagine I do not use SMS much.

[edit] Useful tools

touchscreen-lock for locking the screen
FIXME: talk about RTC clock accuracy issues

[edit] Open questions

What is a clean way to start answering-machine on boot as normal user? I want to run it as my normal user since then call logs can be written to my home directory.

[edit] Development

My unofficial search to bugs.openmoko.org that does regular expressions

[edit] Questions and answers

On your user page you state that you only use ogsmd from frameworkd -- how do you disable the rest (are you setting loads of "disable = 1" lines in frameworkd.conf?): I have my own /etc/init.d/ogsmd that uses start-stop-daemon to invoke "frameworkd -s ogsmd"

[edit] Deprecated stuff

[edit] Editing wiki using mvs (BROKEN, NO TIME TO DEBUG)

mvs login -v -d wiki.openmoko.org -u lindi -p `cat ~/.passwd/osm-wiki` -w 'index.php'
emacs User:lindi.wiki
mvs update User:lindi.wiki
mvs commit -m "test commit" User:Lindi.wiki
MVS_BROWSER=dillo mvs preview -m "test commit" User:Lindi.wiki

~/.emacs

(setq load-path (cons "~/.elisp" load-path))

(autoload 'wikipedia-mode "wikipedia-mode.el"
"Major mode for editing documents in Wikipedia markup." t)

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.wiki\\'" . wikipedia-mode))

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/download/wikipedia-mode.el

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