Thread: iGuidance 2.1.3 in Wine

Hi there,

I'm glad I found this thread. Here's my deal:

I've got an Asus Eee with eeeXubuntu (7.10), and a Holux GR-213u. The GPS unit works fine in xgps and GpsDrive.

I've got iGuidance3 installed via CXOffice. It runs fine, but GPS info shows nothing (other than Lat/Long data, which seems relatively correct but unconfirmed). I've done the appropriate /dev/ttyUSB0 -> dosdevices/com2 linkage.

I figure I've got the same comm issue you've been talking about with Wine. Wondering if you can hook my up with your .deb file.

For the record, I had Wine 0.9.46. I just installed 0.9.54 (via the wineHQ apt source), still no dice.

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I just had a thought... I don't think CXOffice uses the normal Wine install. Perhaps I should try Wine instead of CXOffice. Can you hit me with your .deb anyway? thx
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Thanks,

noot

Update here:

I uninstalled iGuidance from CXoffice.

Then I compiled Wine 0.9.55 using the 0.9.22 "comm.c" file. Unfortunately, I'm still having the same results as before in iGuidance. Also, I mentioned before that the GPS Info in iGuidance showed correct Lat/Long data... well it's not actually correct

I'm thinkin it must be my GPS receiver.

I did use it in Windows, and (perhaps I dreamt this) I vaguely remember something about after using the unit in Windows, it messes things up in linux. Like I said, not sure if this is remotely true... and my unit DOES work in XGPS, so I know it's working.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance,

noot

Originally Posted by alexnoot

Update here:

I uninstalled iGuidance from CXoffice.

Then I compiled Wine 0.9.55 using the 0.9.22 "comm.c" file. Unfortunately, I'm still having the same results as before in iGuidance. Also, I mentioned before that the GPS Info in iGuidance showed correct Lat/Long data... well it's not actually correct

I'm thinkin it must be my GPS receiver.

I did use it in Windows, and (perhaps I dreamt this) I vaguely remember something about after using the unit in Windows, it messes things up in linux. Like I said, not sure if this is remotely true... and my unit DOES work in XGPS, so I know it's working.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance,

noot

Here's the URL to the wine package...

http://rapidshare.com/files/91653115..._i386.deb.html

Try that and let's take it from there. You might want to uninstall the current version of Wine first.

No dice =(
Still nothing in iGuidance.
I dont' know enough about GPS units... is there some sort of standard for the serial data? I shouldn't need gpsd or anything for this to work right... just the straight serial data should do it in iGuidance?

Originally Posted by alexnoot

No dice =(
Still nothing in iGuidance.
I dont' know enough about GPS units... is there some sort of standard for the serial data? I shouldn't need gpsd or anything for this to work right... just the straight serial data should do it in iGuidance?

Are you able to cat /dev/ttyUSB0 as the same user as you are using when launching wine?

If you can cat that, are you able to cat the symlink dosdevices/com2? Why are you using com2, is that right?

When you cat the file you should see a steady stream of data, this is called NMEA data. The website below should give you an idea of what you should be seeing...

http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm

Hey guys,

So I haven't worked on anything at all since my last post. I actually tried installing 98SE using QEMU, but my CPU doesn't support KVM so it ran like total poop.

Anyway, I had an epiphany today. I realized that every time I had previously tried to get it all to work, I had GPSD running. Then I realized... I don't think that 2 apps can listen to serial data simultaneously. So, I tried again without running GPSD, and tada! Success!

Thanks for all the help.

One more question (since I'm too lazy to look myself), does iGuidance v4 work under Wine?

Thanks

alex

FYI, I tested IG3 on cxoffice, and only version 6.0.0 handles comm ports OK, any newer does not work.

Wine with old comm.c works flawlessly.

I've been gone for ages (did anyone miss me?). Anyway, I got IG4 (mostly so far) working on linux (Ubuntu Hardy, thankfully I dont' have to write off that $100 I spent on it).

I was re-doing my car-pc in a clean install and I decided to give it another go.

I did some googlilng and found a.. um "patched" installer in a certain swedish bay
This only "fixes" the install issue, you still need to buy it!

Anyway, I tried installing it and no go, still had the same issues.

Then I thought maybe it was a SAPI5 thing, as it was again, complaining it could not find the speech files or maps & data.

Googling around, I found the easiest way to get TTS working was installing Speakonia (a free program) through wine. I don't know if this is needed (but I did this first, so...)
http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4

So I install that and TTS is working. Ok, so I fire up IG4 and... a big fail.

Then I thought about my old install, I *thought* I had made it somewhere with the RealSoft TTS that IG4 uses. I look for my old wine registry (system.reg) and hit the following...

Code:

[Software\\ScanSoft\\Environment] 1188581990
"SSFTSOLOSDK"="C:\\iNav iGuidance\\ScanSoft\\RealSpeakSolov4"

[Software\\ScanSoft\\TTS\\RealSpeakSolov4] 1188581990
@="C:\\iNav iGuidance\\ScanSoft\\RealSpeakSolov4"

[Software\\ScanSoft\\TTS\\SAPI5\\Install] 1188581990
"RealSpeakSolov4"="C:\\iNav iGuidance\\ScanSoft\\RealSpeakSolov4"

I add it to my new install and BOOSH!, it fires up no problem. Well, mostly no problems, the app seems to be fine, I haven't hooked up my gps yet, but TTS is not working. The audio blips, but that's all, so there's a little more work to do.

So, hopefully this is helpful to anyone else who was unfortunate enough to buy IG4 before it was know it is not wine friendly like IG3.

As an aside, they REALLY should make it easy for people like us to give them our business. I mean, outside the c-note it I spent, if you add up all the hours I spent trying to get this to work with both attempts (particularly the first), you're talking a work week, just to give someone my patronage.

Muahahahah.

TTS is working! I apparently didn't have a default audio device set as wineconfig so kindly let me know.

Odd though, the other TTS program still worked which is odd. The voice is ok, not as nice as I thought it would be, but not bad.

Now for that damn gps detection