Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[Radek Polak]

On Tuesday 26 of January 2016 16:28:54 joerg Reisenweber wrote:

> What's the problem with the GPS? Could a spare antenna module incl 
cable
> help you out?
> Just holler if you need one

I don't know exactly - it's long time since i tried. I remember Pavel was 
having similar problem - probably weak signal since he said his GPS got fix 
when he was near some GPS amplifier.

Anyways i use N900 nowadays - works nearly perfectly and i love that it has 
decent camera.  Btw a little off topic. Can be N900 kernel compiled using 
armhf toolchain? So that i can chroot into armhf chroot. I am mainly 
interested if i could get faster web browser and IIRC QtMoko had much 
better performance when switched from armel->armhf.

Regards

Radek
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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[Davide Scaini]

Thanks for the replies.
Well it would be nice to use gsm as well... I was thinking about using it
also as anti-theft (gps+accel+sms).

I remember having a lot of problems of data corruption on the sd card with
shr (which was my favourite at the time), that I think might be a serious
show-stopper.

I will start with debian, and if you have any other ideas please tell.

Best,
d

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Giacomo Mariani <giacomomari...@yahoo.it>
wrote:

> Some years ago I tried Debian and I think it would be the best environment
> if you don't want to use the gsm. Qtmoko runs over Debian as well.
>
> By the way I am going to resume my freerunner as well: I'd like to use it
> as a car navigator with navit. So please let us know how it goes 
>
> Cheers,
>   Giacomo
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>
> hi
>
> >
> >I would like to reuse the gta02 as a gps, I really loved foxtrotGPS and I
> >would like to have something like that running.
> >Any chance to have a distribution that still works on gta02?
>
> >
> >qtmoko: still there? (even if I remember it was quite uncomfortable
> running
>
> http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/
>
> still there, but i think it's fair to say it's abandoned. The last
> versions were as good as it got on the freerunner IMO, but the main (pretty
> much single) developer got fed up with not having a decent kernel even
> after x years.
>
> >shr: abandoned ?
>
> the later versions were hopelessly broken and unusable on the freerunner.
>
> >hackable1: disappeared (I have good memories of that one ;) )
> >
> yeah probably; anyway I'd definitely recommend qtmoko as the best bet
>
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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[Radek Polak]

On Monday 25 of January 2016 20:30:40 m...@dmatthews.org wrote:

> >qtmoko: still there? (even if I remember it was quite uncomfortable 
running
> 
> http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/
> 
> still there, but i think it's fair to say it's abandoned. The last versions
> were as good as it got on the freerunner IMO, but the main (pretty much
> single) developer got fed up with not having a decent kernel even after x
> years.

The 2.6.39 kernel is nearly perfect. It has some kind of very rare suspend 
resume bug, but for navigation it's not problem.

QtMoko has NeronGPS - native Qt and very nice app and also native 
version of navit:

http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/apps/qtmoko-navit.html

You can launch TangoGPS and other X apps via QX application.

My Freerunner has no longer working GPS, so i am not using it nowadays at 
all.

Regards

Radek
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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[Davide Scaini]

googling I didn't find anything relevant/up-to-date about installing linux
on a satnav ... :(
it would be easier to buy a cheap android tablet and use it as a satnav
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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[Davide Scaini]

Thanks Radek for the info and your incredible, and not enough recognised,
effort with qtmoko!
I will try qtmoko as a first option ;)

d

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Radek Polak  wrote:

> On Monday 25 of January 2016 20:30:40 m...@dmatthews.org wrote:
>
>
>
> > >qtmoko: still there? (even if I remember it was quite uncomfortable
> running
>
> >
>
> > http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/
>
> >
>
> > still there, but i think it's fair to say it's abandoned. The last
> versions
>
> > were as good as it got on the freerunner IMO, but the main (pretty much
>
> > single) developer got fed up with not having a decent kernel even after x
>
> > years.
>
>
>
> The 2.6.39 kernel is nearly perfect. It has some kind of very rare suspend
> resume bug, but for navigation it's not problem.
>
>
>
> QtMoko has NeronGPS - native Qt and very nice app and also native version
> of navit:
>
>
>
> http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/apps/qtmoko-navit.html
>
>
>
> You can launch TangoGPS and other X apps via QX application.
>
>
>
> My Freerunner has no longer working GPS, so i am not using it nowadays at
> all.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Radek
>
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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[joerg Reisenweber]

On Tue 26 January 2016 09:18:57 Radek Polak wrote:
> My Freerunner has no longer working GPS, so i am not using it nowadays at 
> all.

What's the problem with the GPS? Could a spare antenna module incl cable help 
you out?
Just holler if you need one

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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[Davide Scaini]

Another option would be buying something like the DragonBoard 410c​ and
find a small touch screen to plug. Any idea about a
cheap+decent+small+waterproof touchscreen?

Thanks again
d
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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

[Nick]

Quoth Davide Scaini:
> Another option would be buying something like the DragonBoard 410c​ and
> find a small touch screen to plug. Any idea about a
> cheap+decent+small+waterproof touchscreen?

Or get a mainstream satnav and put exclusively free software on it.  
That would probably be the cheapest option. Are there projects to do 
this?  I presume they all run Linux anyway, but maybe not enough 
people are interested.

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Re: gta02 as gps/navigator (in 2016)

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hi

>
>I would like to reuse the gta02 as a gps, I really loved foxtrotGPS and I
>would like to have something like that running.
>Any chance to have a distribution that still works on gta02?

>
>qtmoko: still there? (even if I remember it was quite uncomfortable running

http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/

still there, but i think it's fair to say it's abandoned. The last versions 
were as good as it got on the freerunner IMO, but the main (pretty much single) 
developer got fed up with not having a decent kernel even after x years.

>shr: abandoned ?

the later versions were hopelessly broken and unusable on the freerunner.

>hackable1: disappeared (I have good memories of that one ;) )
>
yeah probably; anyway I'd definitely recommend qtmoko as the best bet

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