[cw-discuss] TomTom Home s/w

[Richard]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:08:44 +0000
Sid Boyce <sboyce at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.


Hi Sid

I had a look at open tom, but it just seems to be a 2.4 kernel compile, may be I've missed something
there.
When my son plugs his Tomtom go into the USB port it just gets treated as a USB memory / flash device.
So loading data in is not too much of a problem, IF you know where to put it and the format its in.
Its very frustrating to find linux being used in a multitude of embedded applications, and the application
GUI being win32 only, or maybe in MAC format.
Getting tomtom home s/w functioning under cxoffice would be a big plus for its users and probable increase
cxoffice users.

If you want to take this one off line, and use the land line Sid, just send me an e-mail with your land line number, as we are
only 30 miles apart, and when to call you..
many thanks

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Best Wishes

Richard Bown

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