Out of the box, the kernel has Nokia branded splash screens
enabled. It takes about 30 seconds to boot (at least the first time). On first
booting it asks you to set the date and time, to pick a name
for the machine, and to identify your cell phone, over its Bluetooth
link, for internet access via phone. Hit cancel if you don't have such a
phone.
The date setting dialog during initial setup does not, however, include
timezone, which cues on your home city
(London, it said, i.e UTC). Find
the Control Panel, the Date and Time sub-page, for setting this. Your language
preference (en_UK initially on mine) is set on the Text Input sub-page. The
clock counts UTC like a proper Linux box. In the control panel page there's a
check box for daylight saving time. These notes are written in non-daylight
time, and checking the box had no effect on the provided clock [correct],
leading me to suspect that it's interpreted as do DST when indicated by the
timezone file
, or if unchecked, don't ever do DST if you're in
Arizona
. However, the panel (systray) clock
interprets it as we're doing DST today
, leading to an unwanted time
offset of one hour. I'd say this is a bug in panelclock, and there should be a
separate timezone file for Arizona -- and there is:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix.
The name
chosen in initial setup does not become the
hostname of the device, which may be found in /proc/sys/kernel/hostname.
Mine ended up as Nokia770-51. Put your desired hostname in /etc/hostname
and edit /etc/hosts accordingly.
If you don't use it for a short time the lamp will first be set to the
lowest brightness, then turned off. It's my impression that the power drain is
very low in the latter state, analogous to suspend to RAM
on Intel
processors. In Control Panel - Display you can set the timeouts for these
behaviors. The best way to light up a 770 is to press the power button briefly.
The button down time must be under one second or you'll power it off
completely.
On the N810 I found it most convenient to set the Brightness Period
and Switch Off Display
to the same length of time, and to mark
Lock Screen and Keys
. To get out of lock mode and to light up the
display, slide the lock button (top right key) to the left. Moving the lock
button when the ITB is active
will lock it and immediately shut off the lamp, at least with these settings.
I found that the factory default for the touch screen was not perfect, and web browsing was easier if I did the screen calibration procedure, which you access from the Control Panel or the page menu of the desktop.
See here for a list of setup actions beyond the initial sequence.