On Tue, 12 May 2009 17:28:03 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I far more amazed that you got a non-trivial app to work in wine than > that you got your gps to work with it :-). > > I try wine every so often, and every time window updates are a disaster. > Dragging stuff leaves trails, scrolling windows runs the contents > through a shredder, etc. Well, since these have been the only apps chaining me to the Gates of Hell ever since '98, I've been trying them anew every year or three, sometimes putting in a lot of effort a/o getting a lot of help in many places. I have to say I've seen steady improvement over that time. It's not perfect yet -- I don't like the way windows drag, either -- but it *is* usable at last. At first, it was more than anybody except maybe an Alpha Double Plus Technoid could do even to install them, let alone run them usefully once installed. But part of the trouble, according to what I hear in the electronic corridors, is that Wine's handling of serial ports has always been buggy. Another part (my guess only) is that very few wine users have any need for serial ports -- naturally enough, since ever fewer new computers even have one. Yet Garmin has only recently gone to USB -- none of my equipment has it, and adapters don't help. Anyway, when I began the current try, Wine readily installed Garmin's MapSource (old) and TopoUS2008, though it would still not handle my older Garmin MapSource topo software; it also, this time, took Maptech's old software, which it hadn't before. (It still doesn't take DeLorme, and I haven't tried Topo.com, which is my least favorite.) Both the Garmin and Maptech suites not only installed readily, but do launch and run -- so that they were of some use, even without a GPS. My own chief use, though, is to map my hunting grounds; it's surprising what a difference an accurate scale map can make, even to ground you think you know yard by yard. For that, of course, getting the software to talk to the GPS is a sine qua non; I've kept one dual-boot PC and one laptop for years, just to do it. Now I can wipe them; I may even try F11 (which I was planning to sit out) after all ... We opened champagne last night, and I delighted in my one remaining shot of Glenfarclas Cask Strength; I'll go special-order another fifth (and keep it in the gun safe). -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
