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« Reply #60 on: October 02, 2006, 07:01:23 am »
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and TomTom navigator now mostly runs on the Zaurus running OZ!

That's great news. Thanks Paul (and masked hacker  ) I've been following this with interest, although haven't been able to spare any time to help so far.

How hard is it to get what is needed from a 300? Would I be able to buy a broken one cheap and copy what's need from there.

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« Reply #61 on: October 02, 2006, 08:53:27 am »
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and TomTom navigator now mostly runs on the Zaurus running OZ!
How hard is it to get what is needed from a 300? Would I be able to buy a broken one cheap and copy what's need from there.
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You might need the product code which is on a busines-card sized plasticised sheet of paper, it's a set of letters and numbers. If needed you have to put it into [a href=\"http://www.ttcode.com]http://www.ttcode.com[/url] along with the device code (found through one of the menus when running tomtom on zaurus), and it'll give you the activation code to put into the Z.

Basically, you simply take the files from the SD card on the 300 and put them on the zaurus EXCEPT for the file called "ttsystem". The SD card contains maps and bulk data, the ttsystem file contains linux.

I think I explained before, and there is lots of info on the www.opentom.org website, but ttsystem is a special file consisting of a combined vmlinuz and initrd file, for which a small C is used available on opentom website.

*very* briefly, You loopback mount the initrd, and copy that into your /home/tomtom directory. You'll have to change the mount point for the sd card to /home/tomtom/mnt/sdcard (you can always umount the standard one and mount it manually at that position)... then chroot into /home/tomtom then run ttn.

when things work better I'll do a proper write-up.
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« Reply #62 on: October 02, 2006, 05:23:57 pm »
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« Reply #63 on: October 02, 2006, 07:16:43 pm »
Awesome!
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Will any map card work with any TomTom unit, no matter the region?
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« Reply #64 on: October 03, 2006, 07:12:38 am »
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Will any map card work with any TomTom unit, no matter the region?
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provided you have the product code for it.

Be warned that most tomtom stuff on ebay is pirated or dodgy, and not in a subtle way, so much so I'm amazed that TomTom haven't sued the arse off ebay for not doing something about it!

From what I've read, once a product has been activated and assigned to a device identity, it can be very difficult to reassign it to another one - I don't know how many times you can do it, so if you buy second hand map card/disks the product code might no longer be valid and switchable to your zaurus. HOWEVER, you can change your Z's device ID, so if you do have the product code, device ID and activation code you should be OK.

I did have the traffic speed camera add-on for my non-broken go 300, and I was able to switch it to my newer go 500, and it works.

the license for the maps make up a significant cost for TomTom, so morally it's important to use a legitimate source!
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« Reply #65 on: October 03, 2006, 05:11:19 pm »
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Just curious if it would be possible to run the navigation software from TomTom on the Zaurus? What GIU is used on TomTom GO?
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it appears that tomtom don't use any standard GUI but have their own drawing libraries and write direct to framebuffer. your kernel and fb driver need to be able to switch to 320x240 otherwise it crashes - this seems to be what was stopped me.
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« Reply #66 on: October 06, 2006, 10:41:56 am »
video on youtube of the Z running ttn in demo mode

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« Reply #67 on: October 06, 2006, 11:09:34 am »
Nice... does it talk to you?
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« Reply #68 on: October 06, 2006, 05:27:47 pm »
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Nice... does it talk to you?
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Sadly, sound is still in progress.

BTW, I came across the tomtom SDK on sale for $200!
[a href=\"http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&jid=94X6XE2ABF3299E3AF196A4A6477C3A2&platformId=9&N=96805&productId=187644&R=187644]http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDet...187644&R=187644[/url]
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« Reply #69 on: October 17, 2006, 11:30:22 am »
Things are definitely getting a bit hotter with TomTom on linux devices. Another person has managed to run TTN on a Navman iCN 330, which is an interesting thing to do given that it's a GPS navigation device from a different company and with their own OS but successfully runs linux now!

The last big breakthrough is yet to come, sound, but hopefully the two geniuses working on it (not me!) will crack it.
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« Reply #70 on: October 17, 2006, 12:08:31 pm »
Wow, cool.  So what are the requirements to get this working?  Buy a tomtom device to get the software and run openzaurus?
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« Reply #71 on: October 17, 2006, 12:42:25 pm »
I have permission to publish the website of the linux-on-navman site, there's nothing about TTN on it *yet*.
http://www.duff.dk/navman/
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« Reply #72 on: October 17, 2006, 12:52:39 pm »
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Wow, cool.  So what are the requirements to get this working?  Buy a tomtom device to get the software and run openzaurus?
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As far as I can see in order to be honest, buy any tomtom device (broken or working) which comes with the product code and device ID, and then www.ttcode.com will give you the map activation code. The software itself does not seem to be device locked. Put the tt files and the maps onto the Zaurus running OZ (although pdaXrom would probably work too provided its kernel 2.6 and gcc3), set up the appropriate chroot'd environment, and then when you run it, enter the activation code for the map. You will need to edit the sysfile/ID file to put in the device ID.
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« Reply #73 on: October 17, 2006, 12:54:16 pm »
I see that the Nokia 770 tablet is going to have a GPS Nav package soon:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2397078895.html

maybe TomTom will follow suit?
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« Reply #74 on: October 17, 2006, 12:55:55 pm »
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although pdaXrom would probably work too provided its kernel 2.6 and gcc3
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I wouldn't due to softfloat differences
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