On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:07:27PM -0500, beartooth wrote: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:25:51 -0500, I Beartooth wrote: > > > I have been trying to get certain suites of proprietary software usable > > under CrossoverOffice (CXO) under FC4 on four machines. All are topo map > > stuff, interfacing with a GPS.[...] > > > One sine qua non is still lacking. Neither one is able to interface with > > a GPS. (Until they do, I have to keep a dedicated machine running XP > > <snarl>.) > > I asked the same things on grc.techtalk.linux, from news.grc.com. Two > suggestion there are these, both from John DeCarlo : > > > 2.b.1 There is a program out there, which may well be in the Fedora > > repositories, called "gpsd". This is a daemon to talk to the GPS > > device. I would play with this first, to make sure that Linux can talk > > to the GPS device appropriately. > > The only gpsd I could get from "yum whatprovides gpsd" was a bunch of > debugger stuff relating to KDE development -- and I don't even run KDE. > > I've asked if he means something in gpsdrive -- but, alas!, I've looked at > that, and it's well beyond my competence even to install (and is geared to > other uses than mine, anyway). gpsd is a daemon for reading GPS receivers. http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpsd/. (freshmeat is your friend.) There is a copy packaged with gpsdrive, but it may not be the most current. > > > 3. CXO must support some way of converting a Linux /dev/tty... to a > > Windows COM1. You probably need to do some research on configuring > > this properly, once you know exactly what /dev/tty... your GPS is using > > on the machine. My guess would be that after CXO is properly > > configured, your mapping software will be able to talk to the GPS device. It should. Check on the winehq web pages for details. It's a matter of creating a symlink in a particular directory under .cxoffice from com1 to /dev/whatever. I had this working with wine (neat, no CXO) and DeLorme Street Atlas 8 a couple of years ago, so it should be possible with the latest CXO. > > MY knowledge is not up to telling whether this last -- which sounds to me > like a translation into terms more apt at least than XP's -- is really a > question for CXO, or something for Fedora to do before CXO even launches. > So I'll post this both places, with my apologies, and hope to strike a > spark of interest in at least one of them. I would have asked this on either the CXO or wine lists, or checked either the CXO KB or wine web pages. Rationale: it is application (wine) specific. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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