Re: Navit on N900
 

Cannot find navit package, only navit-dbg

Re: Navit on N900
 

Can you post your output of




?

Re: Navit on N900
 

That is indeed surprising. Do you have a reliable GPS connection? And do you have a map of the area you are currently in?

Let me know if it still does not work, the I share my current ~/.navit directory...

Re: Navit on N900
 

It was truth. I could download everything except navit itself.

Second one to show version differences

Re: Navit on N900
 

Okay got it, disable your testing and devel repo's (I think) and look under updates. There it is. :)

Re: Navit on N900
 

Thanks for post #511 @flandry, I got it to work now.

Apart from the UI, I don't see many changes, except that the OSD is now drawn properly! And it crashes less often, which is very nice indeed! It still does crash now and then though.

However, the old GTK interface doesn't work anymore with it for me. Any options that need to be changed?

This QML is very fluent and seems really nice, but like you mentioned, it's pretty crippled on the N900. Options drawn behind other options, options drawn off the screen, icon-sized search-results, etc.

I'd like the GTK interface back which was the default back when I tried it out in post #507

That one, though less pretty, worked better for me. Contrary to what you experienced, search results also worked normally as long as you start navit from a terminal and not from the desktop.

Either way, wether GTK or QML, any options you choose in settings still aren't saved. On reboot, settings are reset to default. Can this be fixed? Do I need to change a config option or is this some internal function?

Re: Navit on N900
 

Redsandro,

I use the "internal GUI" but getting QML stable would be preferable on the long run.

I am not aware of a method saving the settings. But you can adjust almost everying in /etc/navit/navit.xml (which is not as convenient, but works for me).

Re: Navit on N900
 

I've downloaded and installed the navit per the directions from the Bokomoho website. However NAVIT does not kick on the GPS and will not show my maps. under the actions there is no icon for my vehicle position. I'm using the same custom navit.xml file that I was using under Maemo 5 and all my other customizations to the GUI show up properly.

Does the N900 have a different address to the GPS that should be modified in the navit.xml file?

Are there known issues with the gui-internal mapping settings?

Thanks.

---

Never mind the offending line is

<vehicle name="Local GPS" profilename="car" enabled="yes" active="1" source="maemo">
On the 810/800 this is

source=" gspd://localhost" gpsd_query="w+xj""> which needs to be changed to match the above to work on 900. This should be pointed out for those who may have upgraded from a previous device.

Re: Navit on N900
 

@sondjata: You have to browse around and zoom in (or was it out?) randomly for the first time.

I think it's because navit has a terrible automatic map simplifier to make sure not too much poligons are drawn at the same time, which causes the map look all bue or all brown from certain points of view.

Re: Navit on N900
 

I'm cool now. You missed my edit. The entire issue was the GPS setting.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Oh wow, sorry I wasn't paying attention for edits. :P

Is the N810 still feasible? The much faster N900 is barely holding ground as a smart(phone) device, and second hand price is dropping like it's hot.

Re: Navit on N900
 

feasable? Yes. The Opera browser did add life to the device and NAVIT was a godsend over Maemomapper (and now OviMaps which I tried out on the road today. No turn warnings and no live rerouting. Absolute fail). You can do a lot but it's slow as hell and the newer features on FB etc. lack of a functioning twitter app just got on my nerves after a while. I do miss that relatively HUGE screen though. It was the first difference I noticed (aside from the fact that this 900 is huge). I bought the 900 'cause the phone I was using to tether was starting to go south so I decided if I was going to lay out for phone then it was either an iPhone or N900. I may still regret the decision, but I figure I am deep in Apple (Macbook, iPad, Tower) that I can keep up with IOS stuff (which I need to do professionally) but still use this as my linux/unix escape. That and I enjoy not having to carry around a mess of devices. I had an 800 and had to buy a special carrier for the external GPS, phone and tablet. I don't miss that at all. I bought the 900 off ebay for much less than 1/2 it was retailing for. I refused to pay the retail price for this given how Nokia has had a habit of dropping support quickly and the app developers (not all) essentially drop all updates. Honestly had someone created a FB widget/client that supported places and a twitter client/widget for the 810/Diablo I'd probably have not bought the 900.

But this is waaaay off topic. lol

Re: Navit on N900
 

Thanks for sharing anyway. I didn't realize you have all those Maemo devices. I'm a professional signature ignorer. :)

Re: Navit on N900
 

simpler instructions than managing sources with fapman:

echo "deb http://bokomoko.de/~rd/maemo/ unstable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/navit.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-navit navit navit-graphics-qt-qpainter navit-gui-qml

Request: working navit.xml
 

Some time ago I had a somewhat working navit configuration, including text-to-speech svg-icons and OSD, mostly scrounged together from this forum. Then an update came and navit crashed on start. I got it running again by removing my custom configuration files. But no map, no OSD, not even GPS. I was able to fix gps and map, but the rest is still broken.

Does anyone have a working configuration for navit on the n900?

Is it not possible to distribute a working configuration for navit on the n900 together with the navit package?

Re: Navit on N900
 

Hi

Trying to install today I get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
navit: Depends: navit-data (= 0.2.0+dfsg.1-1maemo1~4772) but 0.2.0~svn2916+dfsg.1-1maemo1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any way I can solve this would be appreciated - Thanks

mykey

Re: Navit on N900
 

Would someone pleeeeeeease show me how to use garmin maps on navit... am a noob so step by step please...

i installed navit from repos and navit-dbg and downloaded a bin map and put it in navit_maps folder in MyDocs and pointed maps.xml to that bin file and it worked but when trying to use garmin it's a hell of mess.

when i try to download libgarmin the way this site http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Garmin_maps says to xterminal says "svn not found".

so i tried to find this libgarmin some other way and finally after some long search i found a deb file that installs libgarmin svn-20080313
i installed it and did what the above site says about editing maps.xml and navit.xml but garmin map still doesn't appear in navit..

help me please ASAP..

Re: Navit on N900
 

I think the problem is that you have still old navit packages from the extras repository installed.

I suggest to remove first all navit packages. Maybe

apt-get purge navit navit-data navit-dbg <and other packages you have installed>

To find packages you have installed, list the navit packages by

apt-cache serach navit

Then

apt-cache show <package-name>

should tell you, if the package is installed.

Re: Navit on N900
 

it's not exactly maemo/n900, but:

is there a way to configure navit to show a marker for the location it shows? ie, when i search for a street, navit shows a map of the area -- but no indicator where in the area shown the street is!
for larger cities with many streets this means that the search is nearly useless, since i am unable to locate the street (no name shown) and when zooming i might as well move away from that street.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Having problems launching navit. fap installed all well but when i launch navit from the terminal line it gave me following message:

navit:main_real:trying /home/user/.navit/navit.xml
plugin_osso: osso_navit: error initiating osso context
navit: plugin_load:can't load '/opt/navit/lib/navit/osd/libosd_core.so', already loaded

any idea? if i try to start it from icon, it breaks..

greets

matthias

Re: Navit on N900
 

hmmm already loaded.. try, rebooting the N900?
then try uninstall and a reinstall

Re: Navit on N900
 

hi everybody! i installed navit from the bokomoko repo and i tried with the settings suggested in the past by Flandry. With my great surprise it worked fine the first time that i launched it! The gui was fine, i was able to access all the menu, i tried the routing and it worked! But now when i launch again it crashes. From the terminal it says:
What to do?

Re: Navit on N900
 

Just guessing but did you kill the existing instances of navit or reboot? This is probably the same issue i described somewhere back in the thread that is encountered when closing the app with the maemo close button when not using the QT interface: it leaves components still running.

Type "top" in terminal and see if you see something about navit in the list of processes. If it's there you can kill it with "killall navit".

To properly shut down navit using the other GUIs, you have to use the exit button within the UI rather than the maemo "x".

Re: Navit on N900
 

Search back through the thread to one of my earlier posts of instructions to see what it said about garmin. If i recall correctly garmin support is either almost useless or removed from navit at this point.

Re: Navit on N900
 

yes i tried to reboot also but still the same error. is it possible that some other apps, a widget maybe, is using the qt interface?

Re: Navit on N900
 

anyway i got my navit working using the internal gui with gtk_drawing_area. work pretty good even if in the terminal i can see some errors like:

navit:displayitem_draw:failed to load icon '/opt/navit/share/navit/xpm/parking.xpm' also for other icons like worship heliport viewpoint zoo etc.

and i choose an osd.xml that at least make visible the zoom in/out icons and the fullscreen icon, but there is still a square with an interrogative point inside, i don't know what icon should be

if somebody know how to fix the error with qt_qpainter please let me know!

that is:
navit: plugin_load:can't load '/opt/navit/lib/navit/graphics/libgraphics_qt_qpainter.so', Error '/opt/navit/lib/navit/graphics/libgraphics_qt_qpainter.so: undefined symbol: _ZTV14EmbeddedWidget'
navit: plugin_load:can't load '/opt/navit/lib/navit/osd/libosd_core.so', already loaded

i don't know if there is a conflict with some other qt apps that i have installed on the phone or what

Re: Navit on N900
 

just another question: do you have the speech working with espeak? i set on enabled but still not working. are the settings inside speech.xml fine or is better this http://wiki.navit-project.org/index....g_Navit#Speech ?

Re: Navit on N900
 

sorry for continuous posting, but maybe i found a bug. using openstreetmap maps, when searching for a street, all the streets with access=private are excluded so is not possible to find these streets. i'd reather prefer something like the Garmin Nuvi1300, that uses openstreetmap maps compiled on navmaps.eu: a street with access=private is findable and if choosen as destination, the routing takes you on the nearest point without entering the street.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Just updated to 0.5.0 yesterday and found espeak not working too.
This was my old setting in speech.xml:

which worked with 0.2.0 but not with 0.5.0

I had to change it to this:

and this works!

HTH & HAND

Michael

Re: Navit on N900
 

I installed this week, same repo, and am getting the same messages. Installed, reinstalled, removed and replaced config files. restarted, no running navit processes, etc. Will look into if I have time, not sure if I can be of much assistance. Subscribed to thread

Re: Navit on N900
 

Just came across another issue:
a friend of mine installed navit 0.5.0 from scratch out of http://www.chollya.org-Repository
and the menu-icons were missing completely.
He found out, that installing librsvg2-2 and librsvg2-common solved that issue.
Would it be possible to add these two to the navit-dependencies to prevent future problems?

CU and merry christmas!

CU Doc

Re: Navit on N900
 

Which gui are you using? I have not installed these packages and navit works well (though from bokomoko.de):

Re: Navit on N900
 

there is an update from bokomoko repo, does it fix/improve something? have you tried?

Re: Navit on N900
 

maybe navit-qml is not compatible with the cssu qt-library? anyway can you address the problem on the irc channel #navit, see
http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Contacts#IRC

If there is an outcome which improves the package, please let me know.

Re: Navit on N900
 

Sorry for the late answer- forgot to subscribe the thread :mad:

I am using the internal gui:

Complete navit.xml can be found here

Tnx & Bye

Michael

Re: Navit on N900
 

The same here. Reverted back from http://bokomoko.de/~rd/maemo/ to chollya's repos.
But I would be fond of a navit-version using qt to be a little more responsive using the qt-libraries of n900.
A combination of the smoothness of cloudgps and the offline-routing-capability of navit, that would be nice wouldn't it? :D

CU Michael

Re: Navit on N900
 

I'm afraid I'm a bit of a n00b and my learning curve is very steep. I do try to read things before asking for help and I've managed reasonably well so far, but this one's got me. The more I read about the different installations the more confused I'm getting.

If I understand it at all, I need to install the "libgarmin" before I can install the main "Navit" application, and I also need a map package. Is that right?

The problem is that I'm seeing several references of places to go to get the packages and some of them are old ones and some of them don't seem to work at all.

I did find this page...

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/navit/

But that doesn't seem to be quite right, (maybe it doesn't have the "lib" package) but I'm not sure how to fix that or even if it is still the correct current version.

I've found this one...

http://maps5.navit-project.org/

For the maps (I think), and at least I have found my home etc.

I can't find the "lib" things (libgarmin?), is there an alternative lib or am I missing something?

Would someone be kind enough to point me to the right things, and give me some tips on getting it working smoothly?

Many thanks

Charles

Re: Navit on N900
 

Hello Charles,

please have a look at this page where I summarized my installation of navit on n900. Sorry, it is available in german language only, but should be quite self-explaining. :D

The place to get the maps is right, I recommend you to download everything you need until 1st of April, because there will be a licence-change in the OSM-Project which could cause some gaps in the map- so it is save to use the "old" but complete card for a while until everything is mapped under the new licence.

Please feel free to ask if you are facing further problems.

CU Michael

Re: Navit on N900
 

It probably would be self explanatory if I understood Either the code OR the German. Unfortunately I understand neither so it means nothing at all.

I did try Google Translate, but that doesn't like the "Https" server and returns a "URL" invalid error, so no help there either.

Thanks for trying though.

Re: Navit on N900
 

No problem, then I try to explain step by step:

1. You have to add the repository in the application-manager (wether the original one or Faster Application Manager that I prefer):

Then update the package list.

2. Then install the package navit (Version 0.5.0 is the latest one), the libgarmin will be installed too cause it is included in the repos.

3. Then you will have to install librsvg2-2 and librsvg2-common too because otherwise there will be no icons in the main menu :mad:

4. Now you have to copy the configuration template to your home. Open the xterm and do this:

You will find my configuration files as an example here.

Of cause you will need a map a place it where you have specified it in the config.

I hope this will help you and feel free to ask for further information.

CU Michael