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QtMoko is a Debian based distribution for the Neo FreeRunner. The phone and user interface are based on Qt Extended Improved formerly known as Qtopia. The QtMoko wiki can be found here.
Contents |
Download
Sourceforge Download
Download the following files from radekp download to you desktop computer:
OpenMobile Download
This downloadable QtMoko-Image does not need the installation procedure of the following sections:
- OpenMobile Installer is a zip-file that contains images.
- The installation processes flashes Qi and other images
- you have to create to partitions 1=FAT 2=SWAP on your SD-Card
- download qtm-installer-v26.zip and unpack the file on the FAT-partition of your Mirco-SD card.
- Insert Mirco-SD in your freerunner and boot from SD-Card (press Power & AUX-Button together to get boot menue)
- Select boot from Mirco-SD and after 3 reboots and flashing QtMoko is installed with a Navit.
Installation
If you flash the FreeRunner with a kernel image from QtMoko, then you must install the kernel and the root file system with dfu-util.
NOTE: You need a fully charged Freerunner for installation. |
Installation on SD card with Qi
Installing QtMoko on your microSD Card depends on the Bootloader you are using, uBoot or Qi.
If you have Qi installed then you can install QtMoko on the SD card. This seems to be useful if you want to work with different distribution and you can change the distribution just by changing the Mirco SD card in your FreeRunner.
NOTE: Installation in NAND-Memory with Qi is possible without errors, but with an installed bootloader Qi the boot process will terminate (with Qi installed by Android, which is modified). Install a non-Android Qi version or u-Boot instead! |
If you use Qi, you only need an ext2 partition into your µSD Card where you uncompress the root filesystem image file qtmoko-debian-v26.tar.gz. In this case Qi Bootloader is going to look for the kernel image into the /boot directory for file named uImage-GTA02.bin .
Installation in NAND Memory with u-Boot
If you have Qi installed then install u-boot again as a bootloader by downloading a u-boot-binary on http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/unstable/daily/ otherwise the boot process will terminate and you have to install u-Boot.
All versions of the GTA02 (Neo FreeRunner) that have been sold to the public are version 5 hardware, so look for a file with "gta02" and "v5" in the name, for example: u-boot-gta02v5-1.3.1.bin (linked U-Boot-Version from 31.Jan 2010):
sudo dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D u-boot-gta02v5-1.3.1.bin
Installation of Kernel and Root-FS NAND-Memory
Switch off your FreeRunner and press the AUX and Power-On button at the same time. Your FreeRunner is showing the following U-Boot Menu:
*** BOOT MENU (NOR) ***
Boot Boot from Mirco SD (FAT/ext2) Set Console to USB Set Console to Serial Reboot Power Off
The FreeRunner will stay in this mode for only 30 sec. Within this time you have to start dfu-util. If you want to flash the kernel image (you will need to be root on your PC) then you have to start the following command in the 30sec your see the BOOT MENU (use kernel and rootfs from http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/):
# for the Neo FreeRunner: dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a kernel -R -D uImage-v24.bin
and finally the root fs with this one:
# for the Neo FreeRunner: dfu-util -d 0x1d50:0x5119 -a rootfs -R -D qtmoko-debian-v24.jffs2
Preparations on the Connected PC/Laptop
- To enable connections just by using the hostname openmoko edit the /etc/hosts and add line
192.168.0.202 openmoko
- Enable internet connection via USB Networking so that the installation of packages will be possible.
First Boot
After finishing the installation without errors you have to start the FreeRunner and calibrate the touch screen. Then you see the installed QtMoko on your device.
First Login
If you want to login to your FreeRunner set up a network connection (see USB Networking) with USB cable and start:
desktop# ssh -X -l root 192.168.0.202
The root password is empty so set it for security reason especially when you open the ssh-daemon on the WLAN network interface. Define root password as usual on a linux box with
neo# passwd
If you have established the internet connection via USB cable then update the repository data:
neo# apt-get update
If you want to check if the internet connection is available on your freerunner ping the OpenMoko web server with:
neo# ping 88.198.93.221 neo# ping wiki.openmoko.org
If the first ping works and the second doesn't then check the DNS server settings (see USB Networking).
Setting Time and Date
Set the time and date on from your linux box with
ssh root@openmoko "date -us @`date -u +%s`"
sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:
# hwclock --systohc
If you want to set the time with a NTP Client install the following package, if you have a network connection available (see USB Networking)
# apt-get install ntpdate # ntpdate-debian
For further detail see Setting Date and Time.
Usage
Size Root File System
If you want to install e.g. Twinkle and Navit on QtMoko the size of internal NAND memory is not sufficient (Twinkle need > 100MB). By creating symbolic links some memory problems can be avoided.
NOTE: (Size Root Filesystem) Create symbolic links from root file system to SD-card to save internal memory.If some folders are symb-linked to SD-Card (with e.g. ext2 partition), e.g.
# mkdir /media/card/share # mkdir /media/card/share/navit # ln -s /media/card/share/navit /usr/share/navit It recommended to be an ext2-partition. After creating symb-links install software. |
Consider installing QtMoko on MircroSD instead with Qi, if you want to make use of debian applications that exceed NAND memory capacity.
Login
If you want to login to your FreeRunner set up a network connection (see USB Networking) with USB cable and start:
desktop# ssh -X -l root 192.168.0.202
or if hostname is defined in /etc/hosts
desktop# ssh -X -l root openmoko
Installation of Applications
If you want to install applications (e.g. myapplication) login on your freerunner
# apt-get install myapplication
Replace myapplication by the package name of application name you want to start, e.g. if you want to install the command line editor vim.
# apt-get install vim
If you want to install e.g. the application Navit, you have to install the following packages. Navit needs and X-Server and it will run under QX.
# apt-get install flite # apt-get install unzip
The zip-package is necessary to unzip the navit-qtm.zip package.
# cd /media/card # mkdir download # cd download # wget http://www.openmobile.nl/media/download_gallery/navit-qtm.zip # cd /
During unzip you will be asked to replace /opt/qtmoko/bin/ppp-network. This has to be done to solve problems with DNS over GPRS. Backup ppp-network file before unzipping navit-qtm.zip.
# cp /opt/qtmoko/bin/ppp-network /opt/qtmoko/bin/ppp-network.bak # unzip /media/card/download/navit-qtm.zip # rm /media/card/download/navit-qtm.zip
Unzipping the file will overwrite the following files too:
/opt/qtmoko/etc/qx/favourites.conf /opt/qtmoko/etc/qx/profiles.conf
NOTE: Unzip extracts and overwrites the network settings files mentioned above. Due to this fact the usb0 MAC address changes for the USB connection to your freerunner. E.g. under Ubuntu 10.04 the new network interface for usb0 has to configure again |
Now you have to restart your Freerunner, but you can also try from the commandline of your neo:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
After restart you can start Navit under QX.
Download Maps
Create a folder MapsNavit on your SD card
# mkdir /media/card/MapsNavit
The navit QT package navit-qtm.zip from http://www.openmobile.nl the navit.xml is predefined for benelux maps and will try to load osm_benelux.bin that should be store at
/media/card/MapsNavit/osm_benelux.bin
If you want to use map for another country you can just store a downloaded Navit-Map in that folder and rename it osm_benelux.bin. If the map name should make sense, then you have to edit the navit.xml. See Navit-manual for details. You can find the navit.xml at:
# /usr/share/navit/navit.xml
Create the folder .navit in the home directory on your FR and copy navit.xml to directory:
# cd ~ # mkdir .navit # cp /usr/share/navit/navit.xml .navit/navit.xml
If you have the editor vim installed then edit the file at line 376 approx.:
# vim ~/.navit/navit.xml
If you have downloaded the file germany.bin your mapset-tags should look like this:
<!-- Mapset template for openstreetmaps --> <mapset enabled="yes"> <map type="binfile" enabled="yes" data="/media/card/MapsNavit/germany.bin"/> </mapset>
- Open Main Menu by clicking on the green Q-Topia "Q"-Box.
- Open Applications (4 Boxes, red, yellow, green, blue)
- Scroll down and open QX
- Select Navit
- Click on the white Paper Icon on the bottom left to open the context menu of the QX application.
- Select Launch to start Navit.
- Exit with AUX-Button without stopping navit
VoIP
Integrated VoIP-Client
QtMoko has an integrated VoIP-Client, which would be perfect to use a SIP-Account to do free of charge mobile communication world wide. But at the moment the integrated VoIP-Client does not work, due to some strange problems in Version v24 (see QtMoko-Wiki for current status of development).
Android on Freerunner has an integrated SIP-Client SipDroid that has strange audio problems as well (see http://sipdroid.org ). Maybe there is an underlying problem the
- the integrated VoIP-Client and
- SIPdroid Audio
have in common.
Twinkle
See Twinkle for further details or the official Website http://www.twinklephone.com/
apt-get install twinkle
For installation (>100MB) it would be necessary to install QtMoko on MircoSD.