TomTom Home under Wine?

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AlmaTlust
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TomTom Home under Wine?

Post by AlmaTlust »

Hello,
is there a way to get my TomTom Home program connect to my TomTom GPS device? Under windows it's just an usb harddisk, and TomTom Home finds it via it's contents (I think). But under wine it doesn't seem to see it...
Any hints? Or should I rather go for a virtual machine?
Thanks in advance!
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Post by DaVince »

Since Windows detects your GPS device as an external harddisk, Linux probably does the same, right? With this knowledge you could open up winecfg and set the location of the mounted disk to a specific drive letter (like F:). Then use that drive letter inside the TomTom application - if it doesn't use anything special (like "direct" USB hardware access), the application should now be able to use your drive correctly.
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