![]() ![]() After much hair pulling I found a tutorial on How to Fix VirtualBox USB Support. I had set the filter for the Garmin and lsusb also showed it. I had the problem with USB grayed out in VirtualBox and I could not select it. I had just placed an order for a Garmin when I saw your reply, so decided to try it with the Garmin, and it worked!!! I wanted to let you know how this went, but the difference was I got it to work with a Garmin with absolutely no problems either. Back it all up in Ubuntu using Lucky Backup or your favorite backup program. ![]() If all of the links on the GPS work from Manage my TomTom then you shouldn't have any problems when using them from the touch screen. Plan trip under Navigate and take a test drive to make sure you don't have any freezing before you take a trip. Update the GPS App if available (this is done from "Manage TomTom". This is all completely manageable in Vbox, so don't panic. If you install a new map and don't install the TomTom Gps Application Update you may get freezing. If your gps doesn't show-up in the Vbox VM click on devices/USB and put a check in the box next to TomTom.Īlso make sure you check for TomTom Home updates for updates to Home itself before you update anything, especially the maps. Last edited by linux4me February 25th, 2011 at 02:34 AM. Then we wouldn't all have to waste so much time screwing around in virtual environments trying to get their devices to work! It seems like it would be no big deal for them to provide the files for us in a form that would allow easy updates. My XXL is recognized by Ubuntu 10.10 and I can browse the contents of it in Nautilus. I really wish TomTom would just make the update files available as a download for those with an account on their site. I haven't tried it yet, but it certainly sounds like a fix for the problem I was having. I found this post on the VirtualBox site that recommends making yourself a member of the "disk" group (System -> Administration -> Users and Groups -> Manage Groups) as a workaround. My TomTom is now recognized again, and it's downloading updates as we speak. To make sure I was right, I uninstalled the 4.0.4 Guest Additions, removed VB 4.0.4, then reinstalled VB 3.2.12 and installed the 3.2.12 Guest Additions. This seems like a problem with VB 4.0.4 and the TomTom, and not TomTom Home. My other USB device, my HP printer, worked just fine. However, when I upgraded VirtualBox to 4.0.4 and installed the Expansion Pack to get USB 2.0 working, I got a grayed out device for the TomTom in Devices in VB, and TomTom Home would not recognize the device (of course). Although it seems like TomTom Home is slow downloading things and installing them, it works. I've got TomTom Home and an XXL 550 working in VirtualBox 3.2.12 (PUEL) with Winblows 7. Last edited by Handssolow March 9th, 2011 at 02:56 PM. TomTom's approach could be that they want to protect their intellectual property and prevent use of things such as piratebay sourced maps? A thought, what happens after a fresh install of TomTom Home on a ******* PC, is a connected satnav device recognised before TTH has a chance to connect to the internet? There's me now being paranoid. I won't buy another TomTom satnav.Įdit: This is probably a false trail but looking for any differences between my TomTom Home installs in Wine and XP, I noticed two extra files in XP under TomTomHome/xul/components, they are, compreg.dat and xpti.dat. I have noticed that if I Apply after selecting a different Type in Drives, my TomTom satnav senses this and a Please Wait message and temporarily red cross appears on the satnav screen. No luck here using this work round with my TomTom satnav. The floppy switch was being used here also to get mass storage devices recognised under Wine Here they did get their satnav device recognised by renaming the drive a: but no updates as the model wasn't covered. WineHQ has this test report of an earlier version of TomTom Home. TomTom seems deaf to requests and has offered little or nothing in the way of assistance to Linux users, save for offering the Linux stuff that is on the satnav. This sounds a bit paranoid, true or not the evidence points in this direction. I've see someone suggesting Microsoft requested TomTom not to develop software for Linux users. ![]()
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