[cw-discuss] TomTom Home s/w

[Sid Boyce]

Richard wrote:
> Hi All
> I've migrated my son over to linux, and now trying to get the Tomtom home s/w
> running in cxoffice.
> The s/w loads ok, and when trying to run it , it crashes once the GUI is displayed.
> A bit of googling shows so far no linux compatable s/w from Tomtom.
> Strange that the use embedded linux but only supply win23 user interface.
> 
> Has anyone got further with getting this s/w running either in wine oe cxoffice.
> TIA
> 
> 

I tried it sometime ago and reported my difficulties on the list in 5 
posts - "Creating devices in Crossover Office" 27/12/06 - 10/01/07. I 
did get it to talk to wine, but backup stored some files in lowercase, 
restore then complained it couldn't find certain files and I couldn't 
get the on line update to work. When I used a Windows PC, the update 
didn't work either, probably because something got corrupted during the 
restore from wine.
I've come across a number of Linux based devices and software that would 
only work with Windows, stuff like on firewall package and Astaro 
Linux's tutorials only showed how to configure it for Windows. Astaro 
also sent invitations to an on-line seminar, Windows needed and when I 
complained, they sent me a PDF of the presentation.
Quite a while ago I did ask TomTom about accessing their GPS from Linux, 
no can do.
I've not looked too closely at http://www.opentom.org lately, they 
didn't cater for my Go700 at the time, now I have a Go720.
Regards
Sid.
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