[shr-u] navit - howto config navit.xml

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

On 7/17/09, Davide Scaini <dscaini at gmail.com> wrote:
> tried all:
> - installed shr on a big sd card
> - installed navit first form opkg repos
> - tried navit -> no result
> - modified navit.xml with internal gui -> no result
> - export NAVIT_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/ -> no result
> - installed latest navit -> no result
> get the very same error (???)
> d
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Davide Scaini <dscaini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @Kazer:
>> ok, so your advice is to download the latest navit instead of the one that
>> comes with shr-u?
>> thanks for your detailed reply ;-)
>> d
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM, KaZeR <kazer at altern.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I would recommend copying navit.xml to /home/root/.navit, because a
>>> package
>>> upgrade could overwrite it. And it's a good idea to diff your xml against
>>> the shipped one for updates from time to time.
>>>
>>> Also, opkg's memory leak (or whatever was making it to eat 100% cpu and
>>> memory) has been fixed (at least in SHR-unstable) so now it's again easy
>>> to
>>> use navit's daily builds from http://download.navit-project.org/navit/
>>> (where the current revision is around 2395 i believe).
>>>
>>> Davide : if navit says that no gui can be loaded, then either it cannot
>>> find
>>> the .so files (can be because of a wrong NAVIT_LIBDIR variable) or that
>>> you
>>> choosed a gui that isn't available (not built) from your navit.xml.
>>>
>>> Recent packages of navit include a better config sample for the Neo
>>> (internal, with better settings for icon_xs and co). I can share my
>>> navit.xml if needed.
>>> --
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Did you install navit-dev? ... It provides symlinks which navit tries
to use. You can also tweak config, but that's little more difficult.