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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Paul Flint wrote:
Just go my TomTom in the mail. Buy.com has refirbs for $79.00, free
shipping. They say 6-10 days, it showed in two!!!
John, how do I load a command line on this thing?
You need TTconsole, from here:
http://wiki.opentom.org/TomTom_Console
The binary package is pretty simple to install; just mount the
TomTom as a USB mass storage device (I generally mount it on /mnt/sdcard for
simplicity's sake; that makes paths the same whether it's being a host or a
USB drive), unpack the ZIP, and "cp -r SDKRegistry TTconsole /mnt/sdcard".
An icon for the console should appear in the TomTom's main menu when you
restart it.
The keyboard's German by default; adding --keyboardlayout_en to the
binary invocation in TTconsole/TTconsole-wrapper should fix that. Fixing the
irritating "feature" where the keyboard overlaps whatever you're trying to
look at is going to be more complicated, but I'm working on it.
If you want to do anything useful with the console (it hasn't got
much beyond busybox available by default; not even a text editor), or build
your own TTconsole binary, you'll need an arm-linux cross-toolchain. I spent
about a week fighting with gcc trying to solve the chicken-and-egg problem
involved in building an ARM-targeting gcc (which requires installed ARM libc
and headers) and ARM libc (which requires a functional ARM-targeting gcc),
complicated by gcc/glibc having this issue with only certain version
combinations having compatible bugs, before giving up and downloading the
binary package from TomTom.
Binaries and sources for those and other stuff can be found here:
http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl
And if you happen to come across any way to do things like
submit/retrieve map updates without plugging the thing into a Windows or
MacOS box, let me know...
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John Campbell
[email protected]
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