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Thanks for the help. I went to the wiki and followed the directions for the most part. Got it to compile. Used sb2 ./autogen then sb2 ./maemo.configure then sb2 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -b from the garage instructions. I end up with a deb file one directory up.

However, it installs and runs, but the osd buttons don't work, and there are no icons on the menus. I'll keep plugin away at it. I'll try to post som of the output tomorrow. Bear with me as I work around work and family.

Keep up the good work guys. It's getting better all the time.

i've tried dwould's build and it's a lot faster than the svn one.
i got routing working using routeplaner maps, as far OSM maps doesn't have my village in it. (must learn how to use osm2go and contribute)
some issues i have found:
the screens turns off in my n810, is gerritv's fix for this in the build?
route to town hangs if you try to select a street, must kill navit if i try to route at work this way, but it does the same with svn version too, could be an issue with routeplaner maps?
now i'm going to try to understand better how to use navit and if i can get audio output trough espeak instead of flite, flite speaking italian sounds terrible
two (dumb) questions:
where am i supposed to put the icons-prescaled.gz i downloaded from gerritv's blog?
where do i find an howto to have a scratchbox development environment? i do use arch linux but i could make it run in debian (better) or ubuntu in virtualbox or qemu.
thanks a lot everybody

Good morning, another snowy day here in the UK, so once again no chance to try things out properly...however, I can try to be helpful.

and

both have the same or similar answer.
Basically the build process is supposed to run a kde app that converts svgs to the prescaled pngs. However I have not managed to get it installed under scratchbox in my ubuntu install. There is a similar app that I believe Gerrit uses to 'fake' this step, but it just segfaults for me. Anyway...basically Gerrit has providees the icons-prescaled.gz which you can extract in the navit/xpm folder
either after installing a build that didn't have them. Or (in my case) in the source folder before building the deb in the first place.

This then means all the icons work again.

as for why the buttons don't work for you lemmy slender...erm I have no idea.

My build may not have included Gerrits unblanking fix, I can't remember if it had already been integrated. Last I checked Gerrit's fixes where still waiting to get integrated.

ernia: assuming espeak takes the same format as flite then that should be a trivial switch.
However one thing I would like to investigate at some point is switching it to use pre-canned 'human-read' audio clips rather than text to speech. I have no idea if that would be better/worse performance wise. But I much prefer the quality of speech my tom-tom gives than the flite stuff.
One idea I've had I might look into is something that actually takes the same parameters as flite, but first looks up a mapping table to see if it has a mp3 or somesuch to play for that phrase. And falls back to flite if it has none.
Maybe I'll look at this when I'm satisfied with the overall performance as a navigation device.

forgive me, my english isn't that good. did you mean that there is an app that converts icons-prescaled (the gunzipped gerritv file) in some image files and you've alredy done it while building the package or did you mean that i should copy icons-prescaled (which is a single file) in /usr/share/navit/xpm/? in both cases there must be something i miss, because launching navit from a xterm i continue getting this message: gui_internal:image_new_scaled:failed to load country_IT with 32,32. thanks for your help
about voices you run way faster than me

HI Ernia,
Sorry I meant icons-prescaled that gerritv provided means you don't have to do any conversion. they are ready to use.
icons-prescaled is a tar file. (but is missing a .tar extension) you need to run
tar -xvf icons-prescaled
(or if you haven't arleady gunzipped the file)
tar -zxvf icons-prescaled.gz
in order to extract all the icons inside your xpm folder.

me dumb
the lack of the .tar extension fooled me. thanks a lot

Me dumb so I uploaded a new prescaled icons file with tar,gz extension :-)

Also updated the wiki page at navit-prject to reflect present settings for compiling from SVN. Also added some pre-requisites, e.g. librsvg2 to pre scale icons.

Please note that there have been extensive changes to the OSD code in recent days, one #navit user updated the OSD wiki page with some of the current info. I ran out of time again to update hte N8x0 page re: OSD but would suggest that future OSD and config stuff go onto the common area pages unless it is only for N8x0?

Please see my blog post from Feb 4 for other details

Lemmyslender, the icons should build if you use the patch in trac 288 along with SVN2001 or later. Also need to install librsvg2, see the navit wiki for N8x0....

Gerrit

I just posted SVN2001 plus my patches to my blog (http://tech.visser-scully.ca) . Please read the blog entry carefully, the OSD configuration has changed considerably in the past few days!!!

Gerrit

i downloaded navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb.gz from gerrit's blog, gunzipped it and tried to install with dpkg -i navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb
i got this error:
/media/mmc2 # dpkg -i navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb
dpkg-deb: `navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb
ls -l output:
/media/mmc2 # ls -l navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 user root 2918400 Feb 4 06:39 navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb
any help?

EDIT it seems to me that navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb.gz is a tar.gz file, i can extract its contents with tar xvf navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb.gz. i would prefer treat it as a package, how do i convert it?

I had a similar problem with Gerrits deb, didn't notice it needed uncompressing. I have now build svn2001 and updated the file available from my server:
http://demigoth.org/files/navit_0.1.1-1_armel.deb
or you can get it from:
http://download.navit-project.org/navit/n800/svn/
I'm not sure if there is anything materially different between the two at the moment.
i've also updated the layouts on my blog:
http://danielwould.wordpress.com/navit-stuff/
to use the slightly newer hooks for the buttons. the bottom of the 3 now sets a background colour. but for the moment I can't get the alpha channel to do anything so it's just solid red rather than semi-transparent.