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This page describes how I use my phone. Feel feel to copy these ideas and suggest improvements.

Hardware

• gta02V5 with buzzfix
• invisible shield(tm) for the screen
• usb car charger
• 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.

Software

Boot loader

• Qi 9ef7754b8243457c mostly because it does not touch Glamo and I am trying to help in debugging Glamo problems.
• mmcblk0p1 and mmcblk0p2 both have /boot so that I can have a fallback kernel with Qi just in case

Kernel

• andy-tracking 9ecc089861ab238e
• patch for wlan
• patch to recover kernel messages after crash

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.

programs from debian main

• Xorg
• xserver-xorg-video-fbdev for reliable graphics output (xserver-xorg-video-glamo will hopefully replace this soon!)
• xdm as display manager
• xvkbd as virtual keyboard
• xterm as terminal emulator
• elinks and woosh 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.

programs for reliable GSM calls

I do not use whole frameworkd for reliability reasons involved around dbus. NOTE: many programs here are not documented and not really ready to be packaged.

Related bug reports: #348, #19796.

• 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
• 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.

Useful tools

• touchscreen-lock for locking the screen
• FIXME: talk about RTC clock accuracy issues
• FIXME: talk about consumption, energy, current limit, start/stop host mode...

Deprecated stuff

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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