[phiggins]

Still having a few problems with Mariner: The sound problem and whenever I open a chart it thows an Exception but goes ahead and loads the chart but after that things like saving the configuration don't work. Anyone else have this problem?

Anyway I decided I would try wine, the emulator program not the drink. It allows you run native Windows programs under Linux.
So I installed it: yum install wine

The first program I tried was Fugawi ENC. It had a lot of problems. It was able to see the GPS fine and I could load any of the built in charts like North America. But when I tried to load my raster charts from the SD it went through the process of importing them but when I tried to open them it went into a loop. Also it kept getting an ole error.

So I gave up on Fugawi and tried SeaClear and it works flawlessly. I didn't try AIS but at least the feature exists, it doesn't on Mariner.

What amazes me about using wine is how fast the programs run. Faster than they do on native Windows.

For both Fugawi and SeaClear before you start them you have to define the com port to use. See below.

To install Fugawi and SeaClear I downloaded their install files on my PC onto a memory stick and then put the stick in the XO. Be sure NOT to install or run wine as a super user (su) it must be under your normal uid: olpc.

To Install SeaClear:
wine /media/KINGSTON/sc_setup.exe
KINGSTON is the name of my SD card. Substitute yours.

Setupthe com port to use:
$ cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 com1

Start SeaClear:
wine "c:\Program Files\SeaClear\SeaClear_2.exe"

If you want to load maps:
wine "c:\Program Files\SeaClear\MapCal_2.exe"

Real neat.

Paul