Kustomizer 0.2 for Openmoko 2008.12

Right after the first release of Kustomizer I realized that GSM didn’t work at all. It was a pain to fix but I think it’s fixed now and GSM should work again. The script has gone through some major changes and I think it makes more sense now. Bad thing is that now it requires a bit more user interaction (restarting the script) but it also should be faster and suit forthe needs of more users than earlier.

Kustomizer 0.2
Test run log

ONE SCRIPT – TWO SETUPS

It’s now possible to run Kustomizer once or twice. Here’s an explanation what happens:

First run:

  • illume-theme
  • terminal keyboard
  • wrench & qwerty buttons
  • opkg.org repository added
  • qpe eating CPU resources -bug fix
  • new gsmhandset.state for improved audio quality
  • Restart to apply the new settings

Second run:

  • Linking /home/root/Maps to /media/card/Maps
  • Loads of coolest applications & libraries
  • GPRS settings
  • Your custom script from /media/card/customscript will be run, if found
  • Restart to apply the new settings

Changelog

  • Rewriting the instructions
  • General cleaning
  • (new) ntpclient
  • (new) http://www.opkg.org/package_121.html – MokoMaze
  • (new) ttf-liberation-mono (vala-terminal uses this)
  • (new) battery http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Forcing_fast_charge_mode
  • (new) runs /media/card/customscript – the user can add his own stuff there
  • (new) automatic prevention of suspend & dimming
  • (update) yaouh – version update
  • (update) neon – version update
  • (remove) Finnish keyboard layout & dictionary
  • (remove) custom scripts from card
  • (remove) cellhunter – on FSO-based only?
  • (remove) Guitartune – on FSO-based only and libfft fails to install
  • (remove) fourier – libfft fails to install
  • (remove) zomg and appmanager – less used..
  • (remove) pingus – doesn’t install
  • (remove) mumpot – useless for most
  • (remove) usbmode – battery replaces most of this
  • (fix) watch checkrate changed from 1s to 2s
  • (fix) libglade-2.0 -> libglade-2.0-0

For more details, see http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Kustomizer

Give it a go & let me know!

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4 Responses to Kustomizer 0.2 for Openmoko 2008.12

  1. Lars says:

    Hi there,

    I like the idea of your script but i found 2 errors in the 0.2 version and thought i would share:

    1. You try to install yaouh_0.3 but a newer version 0.4 is available and 0.3 is not

    2. when trying to install meooem i never get any response from the server

    Otherwise great job and i would love to see improvements to the script to be able to use it.

    An Idea would be some error handling in order to debug from users more easy.
    A way of having a summary of the installation errors to display in a log.

    regards,

  2. Hi!

    Thanks for your feedback. I added them to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Kustomizer#0.2_release and will fix them for the next version.

    I agree that some kind of error handling or error summary would be nice. At some stage I tried 2>> but it didn’t work nice so I left it out.

    I suppose the errors didn’t prevent you from installing the rest?

  3. Lars says:

    I am not having very much luck with this.
    A lot of the stuff just won’t download even links from the http://www.angstrom-distribution.org.

    I tried going through the script step by step in order not to have it skipping a lot of stuff when one thing in a list did not install but get too many errors in order for me to believe that the end result will be of any use.

    I don’t say your script does not work but for me it just doesn’t. A shame really.

    I will give another version a try if you make one

  4. @Lars: Nice to hear you gave another try.

    I’m currently working on the 0.3 version (see http://www.kurppa.fi/freerunner/kustomizer_devel) that has some of the fixes included. There’s also still some things to do before I’ll replace 0.2 with the newer version.

    meooem: I’m trying to install it now from opkg.org repositories, for some reason the installation seems to fail. I’m trying to see what’s the problem: opkg install meooem installs it at least for me now.

    yaouh: I’m installing it from opkg.org repositories as well -> as soon as someone uploads the latest version there it’ll be installed with Kustomizer (and anyway it has some problems with the latest tangogps that has the default map repositories hard-coded somewhere :(

    angstrom: I tried to go to http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2007/ipk/glibc/armv4t/base/ on my desktop computer and it takes a long time to get there -> can be that their servers are now busy for some reason and the download times out or something. There’s not much I can do except mirror the packages to my server. I’ll see if it’s necessary.

    Thanks for your feedback Lars!

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