Anyone ever get any GPS software running on their xbox?

My original plan was to put an xbox in my car running XBMC - i fould that XBMC had limited keyboard support, so i decided to goto GentooX... only to find it's nothing compaired to XBMC...

So now i find myself messing with the source code of XBMC

Anyways, im either gonna have 1 xbox running MythTV and some GPS software, or one running XMBC and another running linux with GPS - if it's capable...

Any ideas/comments/suggestions?

Why the hell would you want a bulky black box in your car? I'm sorry dude but that just sounds stupid. I've seen an Xbox in a car before but not for a GPS. It's usually for the kiddies while mommy and daddy drive. You'll probally run yourself off the road. Just go out and buy a gps or get a pda.

Leave the W5 to me.

Believe it or not - im thinking of putting in 3 xbox's. When it's all said and done, I'll take pics, so you can dirty your shorts.

Im not driving a honda civic, or something useless with no space, big and bulky isn't an issue.

Don't be jealous...

Eh screw you man,

I own a Honda civic and this car rulezzz

I would like to see yo pass my

180bhp 9400rpm 1.6vtec civic.

yeah man you keep hanging those xboxes in, will only make you crash harder when I drive you off the road. Punk

I hate people who think they are bad ass and shit. All I am going to say is that my car is a Dodge and it will kick your little Honda ass. I could care less what you think so don't bother trying to argue (that's why I didn't tell you the model).

... Thanks.

You've just demonstrated the typical Honda Civic owners mentality. For some reason, they all think they own Ferrari's?.. boggles my mind. And I bet yours is red too ...

180bhp at 9400... buddy, don't blow ur engine on my account. I don't wanna start talking about cars, I'm not even gonna say what I've got, cause then we'd all be show-boating, right?

So race ur honda, have fun, and don't crash when ur engine siezes.

The problem why honda drivers get this mentallity is not because of honda drivers, but is off because other people are too ignorant to believe honda's can be this fast. Believe me there's honda's around that can go 0 to 60mph in just 4.6 seconds, thats already 0.7 seconds faster then any porsche and only 1 second behind of a lamborgini. and only 0.6 seconds slower then the fastest american car ever made dodge viper. And the reason why Honda drivers laugh is because for a dodge viper to reach this speed it needs a 500hp 3litre V8 turbo charged engine(real american style as long as its big it must be good). That already shows how stupid american cars must be. A honda civic containing only a 1.6litre single camshafted vtec engine with turbo can go almost just as fast. I lay down atleast some facts showing that your Dodge or corvette or whatever stupid USA car ur driving is not so good at all before calling them stupid. You guys just say Honda's are stupid without even knowing anything about the cars. And this is exactly the reason why most honda drivers have this mentality, because of ignorant people (and sorry to say but americans are the worst when it comes to ingorance).

Oh and PS. nooo its not red!!

1. Your stats, im sure they're all documented offically somewhere... maybe on the street tracks of the town you live in. But $50,000 put into a car worth at most $20,000 new - so say $70,000 later, you have a car as fast as say a car worth about the same price? But at the end of the day, it's still a honda.

2. Dodge viper engies are not V8, or 3 litre or 'charged'. They're 8 litre, V10's. Since you've messed this fact up, who knows how flawed the rest of your 'facts' are.

3. You wanna get heavy on the litre per horse ratio? I'll give honda that, they have small little windup engines that can put out some power, and last too. However, they lost their trophy with the S2000 having 2.0 litre and 240hp to Mazda with the RX8 engine. 1.3 litre - 250hp. I don't think Honda is gonna beat that anytime soon.

4. Another one of your facts being flawed. Honda's VTec engine is a DOHC. DUAL OVERHEAD CAM. Im ashamed to know these things, but it's a part of my life. I live and breathe cars. I'll give honda 1 thing, they're reliable... thats it.

5. I think i've already demonstrated I know a bit more about 'cars' than you... which is prolly why you have a Honda and not something else.

6. Im not American. im Canadian. You are? ignorant? Prolly french...

For the record, I drive a BMW - and i mash it up every summer racing little boys like yourself who think their honda's are race-cars. take a look.

sim simma

It's been in the bodyshoppe all winter ... but w/e...

Oh
PS - if it's not red, then i bet it's silver, or some combonation of black and red spray paint?

Way to make an assumption you jackass. You say we know nothing about cars and you are posting about a Dodge viper with a 3 L turbo charged V8. That must have been a rare build because it doesn't exist you moron. Also everybody is so concerned about horsepower when Torque is what actually makes the car accelerate, but horsepower sure does look good on the dyno. Last time I checked Honda's have the torque curve of a wet noodle. I am not saying Honda's can't be fast but maybe you should get your facts straight about cars before making posts a post like that.

Not saying this link is 100% accurate but it was the 2nd link I click from google and it gave me this. http://www.autofacts.ca/classics/fast.htm

I know you don't care because you drive a race car with:
clear tail lights
stainless steel furnace pipe exhaust, or Fart pipe if you will, that gained you 2 hp
racing bucket seat
gutted interior
steel wheels in the front and alloy wheels in the back, that you went in on halves with you other friend that also has a race car
five point harness with tube socks for seat-belt pads
chrome fire extinguisher
3 gauges on the A-pillar consisting of a voltmeter, barometer, and air temp gauge
monster 5 1/2" in tach with shift light
and a short shift to help you make those blazing shifts when it gets up to 9000 rpms.

here yee, here yee.

I absolutely agree. horsepower heads have no idea about torque.

HAHAHAHA thats even worse and still they can only produce 500hp?? hahaha, I bet this car doesn't go higher then 3000rpm.

And sorry to say but a BMW may seem like a high class car in Canada. Here in the Netherlands they sell the car you have for about 4000 american dollars. Here all the arabian and poor people who want to have a car that still looks fast drive those. BMW aint shit. Maybe the custom versions made by Alpine would still appeal to me, but the one you have is really old a no normal person here would drive it. And indeed you are right the CRX version was a dual cam shafted one also under the name DOHC, but if you really know so much about cars you should have known that there is also a SOHC version(which is not a vtec that u are right). But if you know so much about cars then you should know this engine is easyly converted to vtec thus creating a single cam shafted 1.6 vtec engine

And last but not least, to get your honda to 200hp will not cost you 50 000
A simple Honda can be upped to this for 6 a 7 thousend max. Simple turbo set up and intercooler and new modded chip(yep just like xbox) is enough to get you going. Maybe in Canada this shit cost allot more i dont know.

Here's a pic of mine then you know what a real car(and body work) is:





Oh PS. you could have atleast taken it for a wash before you took that picture hahaha Or are these all scratches on your paint?

1. TORQUE! U ever hear about a thing called TORQUE. that viper has enuf torque to twist ur honda's frame.

2. BMW ain't shit? Good god. And honda is something special. Good lord, ur prollly some 16 year old punk who got a honda as his first car cause he saw all the other losers driving around in them. And the netherlands, they're cheapaer cause of things like IMPORATION taxes and TARRIFS. Goto school son. And custom versions are made by ALPINA, not APLINE god. give it up kid. go to school.

4. bodywork? yours looks like paper machet... do that in arts and crafts at your daycare?

5. i didn't wash it. at that point, i was fed up with it and wanted to sell it, so i was gonna poste it in the autotrader. But - i decided against it.

You wanna race me? go find someone with a stick bmw in the 'netherlands' and ask them to race. when they laugh in ur face... take it as a sign.


Are those BMW E36 M3 style Side skirts on that piece of shit? But BMW ain't shit. Why u tryin to make urs look like one son?

First of all in the Netherlands we dont let 16 year old kids drive cars like they do in your country, Cause we know that is just plain stupid and asking for accidents. Here you have to be 18 before you can even take lessons, and noo your parents are not allowed to learn you drive!!
Second of all this is not my 1st car no and then I wonder why you wanted to sell the BMW (going for a Honda weren't you hehehehe)

And noo I don't want to race you cause americans and canadians can't drive!!!! most of you don't even know how to handle manual gears. Thats really stupid. Here you must learn to use manual gears to get a driving license. Racing against you?? I might as well ask someone to crash right into my car right now..

Oh yeah and I wonder why you left the bit out me telling you how to get a single camshafted 1.6vtec engine. Feeling stupid already??

All this squacking over hondas. you must be a loyal customer.

1. You gotta be 18 here, in Ontario before you are fully licenced, and our youth may not be as stupid and ignorant as your youth may be - for example - you must be over 18, and you're still stupid and ignorant. Point in case.

2. So it's not even your 1st car is what ur trying to say, it's mum's and pops? I wanted to sell the BMW because the repairs were killing me. Unlike your japanese import, my GERMAN import costs a bit more to repair. I think the Germans have the right idea - QUALITY over QUANTITY. Where the Japs are Qauntity over Quality. Higher quality parts cost more. You break something in ur car, it costs u 35 cents to repair... but it may break 5x more often.

3. My car is standard. Manual transmission. I've been driving manual for prolly longer than you've been driving. And you may aswell crash ur piece of shit, you'd be putting it out of it's misery.

4. No, im not feeling stupid, you're just feeling too proud of yourself. I havn't verified this fact, but you're still the stuipd dumbass who claimed vipers were 3 litre V8's that are turbo charged... Forget that already?

Save a tree, sell a honda.

Im gonna quote you for sec

'Oh yeah and I wonder why you left the bit out me telling you how' you are trying to make your honda look like an M3 with those stupid side skirts? Feeling stupid already?? Pull ur foot outta ur mouth and come back when u learn how to write with some grammar.

I love how lots of people make such a big deal about honda's VTEC. The only thing it is good for is fuel economy. While most cars have the same valve lift all the time the great VTEC motors use lower lift till you hit a certain rpm, throttle position, and load. This is to conserve fuel and therefore less power at the low rpm's. Why not just take the stinking VTEC off and make it so all the cam lobes are the same size and therefore the same valve lift wether the VTEC is kicked in or not.

In the application of honda's normal cars the VTEC is to conserve fuel and emissions and nothing else. It is not some great performance racing piece or anything like that.

hahahahahahaha I never post here but when I saw that honda I just had too. That is the ugliest little piece of crap I have ever seen you call that bolt on APC bullshit bodywork my god. That whole car is disgusting and I love how you brag about 180hp I just pissed myself. this is probably my first post here not sure just read usually but that car sucks so bad I just had to post....hahahaha what a douche.

Well, it's brought one good thing to us...

New posters are coming outta the woodwork.

I think these pseudo elite honda owners have formed a cult of some kind... helping them boost their self-esteem. Either they're all dellusional, or are in denial about something.

Again ur wrong, its not quality over quantity, Cause here the parts for any german car are like 5 times cheaper then for Japanese cars. So its all about import /export costs just like you said yourself! dumb ass

Im gonna stop right here, im sick of argueing with someone so stupid.

Goto school, get an education, and sell your honda. Then come back and argue about something other than trivial bullshit like this.

Everyone here has showed you how stupid you are, so please, do us all a favour and shut the fuck up.

This will be my last post on the issue.

So, yeah anyone?

Yep I showed everyone .....

That your all the haters and i'm the player I hope you all kiss ratdicks ass some mo.

Im looking into it.

you all suck lol. i drive a corvette and all those little racers eat my dust. they need all those addons to make there small engions have power. i get to turn my corvette sideways and eat the tires off off the shelf. they dont knoe shit abought bulding a monster ride. my last 2 race cars broke records at the last dream cruse and 1 even made tv.

i own quite a few cars.

1. 1984 corvette with custom body work.
2. 1979 commrow la8 engion with his her shifter its just a pretty car panted red and white and has a labgerni moter to ggive it some power.
3. 1987 grand pre with a 428 big block v8.
4. cant rember the year but a cerpice classic with a 428 v8 with all the street addons even nos tanks set at wet shot total death ride.
5. 1984 spider i cant spell the name pinta ferona i think custom built auto trans eltric heat softtop power windows ac. this year spider didnt come with this stuff they only came in the 5 speed and no extras.

so thats my list shure there older cars but they all still look and run new lol. and those poor racers dont knoe what hit them.

amen to that.

older the better.

Run gentoox.
Then go here and pretend that you have a normal pc running linux.
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/

Grab a gps mouse off ebay and some free gps software and your set.
Im working on fiberglass a 7" screen into the double din slot I have. Just gotta save up the cash for a good screen.


PS.
German cars are not better quality they just cost more we all remember how craptastic VolksLemons are dont we. VW owners like to play it off and say thats all fixed now, but half the cars have serious problems.
I really dont understand why honda guys keep bitching about there vtec. MOst new cars come with continusly variable lift and timing things on there engines now.

180bhp how pathetic, let me just say its total power that matters not hp/engine size, where did you get that number you have an engine dyno handy or did you pull it out of your ass.

Ro8in you must be a complete moron. Modding xboxes is about trying to do more with them and get more out of them Kind of like your TARD cart Honda. Its undersized and Underpowered. So what do you do about it? You run NOS in it and put a Giant Spoiler on it and 17 inch rims you do all kind of modding to make it as fast as you can get it but in the end its still a Honda. After a and extra $15,000 in mods its still a honda and after youve run it for a year racing at all around the motor seizes and now its worthless.

Now on to your comment about the Dodge Viper. How do you even think your little rice rocket could compare? First of all the Viper is 500 hp stock from the factory it is a 8.0 Liter V10 non turbo charged you moron. its not a V8 and not 3.0 Liter. Before you start talking like you actually know something about cars maybe you should check your facts. By the way, what is the stock motor and HP for your Honda Civic?

115 HP ? 1.8 Liter ?
LX model spec right off the Honda web site
My guess is that the stock motor does 0-60 in about a day in a half. Ill race you anytime in my Chrysler 300 stock and you can leave your NOS at home.

Hehehe I dont know where you got those specs from but they don't exists in the Civic models. First of all 115hp for a 1.8 is very unhonda like, that would be maybe one of your chrysler cars. The Honda civic 2.0 Liter type-R already produces 200hp thats 100hp per liter, Like to see your americans cars produce that. You guys need 8 liter engines only to produce 500hp, inmagine if Honda would take a 8liter engine, they would make a 800hp car hehehe. Second my Honda is stock 112hp 1.5 but that is because its build for ecenomy, if You take the 1.6 that one is already 159hp. Second of all I dont understand where you all get these prices from 15 000, 20 000 what the hell??? I take maybe 5000 and have it already going 200hp and then the car is lightweight.... inmagine 900kilo on 200hp, man you got that shit going. And you think its strange we think we have fast cars?? hahaha you guys don't know what makes a car fast. You guys only think about big big big. WHile Honda really knows how to make a car fast. Small light and powerfull. American cars?? big, heavy and not as much power as they could produce with engines of that size. 3000kilo on a 500 hp hahaha Ok maybe it has more hp then my honda, but the enourmous weight of your cars really slow the shit down

Let me point something out peak hp does not matter, its just a gimmik to sell cars, what matters is the area under the torque curve.

So tell me why is it that a 260 hp s2000, the pride off all honda adicts, runs a 14.9 in the 1/4. Id like to point out that an rx8 of less power does the 1/4 in 14.

See your problem is that youve never driven another car and never felt pure acceleration push you back in the seat, and hold you there. Its an amazing rush.

And dont knock nos, I find its a great power adder. The problem is most hondas cant run a 40 shot without having to rebuild the engine. With regards to nos the bigger stonger engine will hold more of it.

1st - Was gonna try that, GPS USB thing or some kind of GPS adapter, however I've found Gentoox hangs during boot if too many bizarre USB devices are plugged in. Cromwell bios 2.4 would not init properly when I had a stock Xbox controller, USB keyboard/mouse combo and xbox remote control adapter in. I removed the controller and it came up fine... :S So who knows what is gonna happen if i throw in a USB GPS device.

2nd - German cars - VW is one thing and BMW is another. VW is like a dodge aclaim... BMW is like a cadillac. See, american cars have their 'classes of quality', get inside a BMW and own one for at least 6 months, and u'll never turn back. Ever little thing you use was built with quality and durability in mind. Simplicity is key. I have power locks with out a 'power lock/unlock button', why have one? I just lock my door and all doors lock, to unlock, pull the handle. Try that in an american car, they still have power door lock buttons and for some reason - in 2005 - it's still too easy to lock ur keys inside ur GM... in my '93 (12 year old BMW) it's damn near impossible to lock my keys inside my car - short of locking it from outside with the key then throwing the keys in thru the sunroof... :S It's the little things... oh the little things.

3rd - he prolly go that 180hp shit from reading the stats of his add-on's... u know, those spark-plugs taht say 'adds 15 horsepower' - they never really do, and even if they did, it's not cumlitave... it's total Even if that with a bullshit 4-cyl.

Good god.

Ur car could have 20,000 horsepower and have 1/2 a pound of torque, and u wouldn't even budge.

500 horse in a viper is one thing. 500 pounds of torque is another. COmbined and you've got yourself a dangerous machine.

You see, something you've prolly never experienced is low-end 'put your ass deep into your seat' power. With ur honda, you prolly only get high-end power, u know that power you have when u're just about at that 9000rpm mark? That's horsepower. Torque is the power you have before you reach your horsepower peak.

Lots of torque means lots of low end power. Lots of horsepower means lots of high end power. Having 500 and 500 hp and torque, means u've got power from a stand-still and when ur moving. You could almost say torque is a multiplier for your horsepower

Good lord - just did a search for your car, that crap-one you posted, God, you've been proved wrong about 50 times by 50 different people, im gonna be 51 and prolly 1 (cause i was the 1st to disclaim all ur allogations)

Engine Specs: 1.5L I-4 70HP
Transmission: 5-spd man w/OD

70 fuckign horsepower. Get real buddy. get real. and that's with a standard transmission.

HONDA RULES! .. good god. get a life.

I know its Torque causing the real accell, but in the end torque and horsepower go along way together.

Also too be honest I dont like the s2000 much anyway. I'd rather have a CIVIC Type-R if you like (I dont know if they sell those in ur country). But that is really a beast of a car.

And with NOS I give you that. Its true bigger engine can handle NOS better. The bigger the engine the stronger it is, that is a fact. I'd never said American cars don't win when it comes to strenght. Its true if you want a car where you feel save in and can crash into a tree with 60mph then yeah go for an american brand for sure.
But i'd like to note that if you do want to NOS a car with a smaller engine then Honda is defently the way to go. From all the smaller engined cars ranging from 1.3 to 2.0, Honda defently has one of the stronger engines. Brands like Opel, Peugot or whatever can't beat that!!

Im gonna end this once and for all.... robin....not your fault u have a small... manhood and have to make up for it with a riced out jig rig....

as on the road and on here you've been outmatched, people know more than you. let it go and stop being a pompous know it all ass and take your loss like a semi quazy man.

Chris.

did someone mention gps? ...

I come to read about GPS on an XBOX, and read some little kid arguing about his civic. Bro give it up, seriously, if you haven't noticed, every single post of yours has been either wrong, or completely shot down. Civics are aluminum pieces of garbage. BMWs, and Benzs, over seas [that is if you are in the US or Canada], are totally different beasts. It may cost $4000 US, but is almost like a Chevy in the US. Not saying that the quality over there is lacking, but in about 70% of the cars that the produce for the Euro market, they are nothing close to here. Tariffs, and Pollution acts make some of a price difference, but pure power is another.

As for the viper, yeah it's a big engine for 500hp, but get your car to push the torque that car has, and you would be praying that your car had an engine bigger than the size of a shoe box. A word of advice to get your car a couple extra "horsies" turn it into a flower box, and buy something worth bragging about.

I don't drive anything great, but where I live, all I see is little punks thinking that their car is the shit, and it's the same everywhere, as I can tell by others posts, a f'n civic, with a big ol' spoiler [why god only knows, because it isn't helping anything, but adding a couple pound to the weight], Chrome rims [once again addin weight], and some big headed jackass thinking that he can take anything on the road [weight varies by the mods], but I love watching their faces, in my mirrors, as I wiz past them in my 93 Taurus Wagon [YES WAGON], or when I pull up along side them in my 83 ElDorado, and have them try to pull away.

I can keep going, but this is just what I have to say. You drive a Civic, not a rocket, give it up, as you can tell, you aren't going to win this battle.

any word on the GPS though?

My E-DICK is =================================> big

any news on the gps?
theres a windows program called mapmonkey which uses destinator 3's map data

Sorry to revive an old topic, but yes, I have iGuidance up and running (somewhat unstably) on my xbox under Xebian. Flawless GPS navigation, it got me from Iowa to Atlanta and back. Once I've had a chance to go through the setup again with something a bit more lightweight (I'm thinking either DSL or GentooX Pro) I'll post up a tutorial if anyone's interested. I used iGuidance/Routis, but I don't see why the method I used wouldn't work for any other nav package.

im a linux noobie...please teach me how! i have usb touchscreen and a xbox in my civic (and no im not a ricer and yes i know its an econocar and not a rocket thats why i got it. also i dont have a bodykit fart can exhuast intake or a dumbass spoiler so dont start flaming me)

i have linux installed...how do i install navigation? (i still need to get a gps device any suggestions?)

Ha... no judgements here. I drive a Ford Taurus LS Wagon.

Anyway, what you'll want is a USB GPS mouse, one with a USB-Serial connection. Since Wine and Qemu (wherever your preference lies as you'll need a way to run windows GPS apps) both support USB-Serial devices as serial ports, but don't support USB natively, you can use one of those as a serial device and it works beautifully.

My suggestion if you'll need software as well is to pick up Deluo's Routis software in a pack with a GPS mouse, it's cheaper that way and I know for fact that the Routis/iGuidance software works perfectly under Wine.

This is essentially the same software package I'm using: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...ssPageName=WDVW

For the GPS, I'm using a Holux GM-210. They're really pretty cheap, they lock signals pretty quickly, and they're all-around a pretty good choice, IMO. Again, it's your choice and I don't see why any other USB-Serial GPS wouldn't work, but I know this one does: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5769311560&rd=1

Right now I'm compiling a GentooX Pro environment I can use to run KQemu, to see if the speed optimizations make any difference in running a full Win98 environment on the xbox.

I'm still a linux noob myself, but I learn quickly and I'm not afraid to screw my install (or hold it together with duct tape) in the interest of getting it right.

i checked ebay and google and cant find any place that sells them....could you help?

i mean the routis software

*Puts hand up*

Motion to delete all three pages of crap about cars by various people that have nothing to do with this topic.

I came here to talk about linux, not about a bunch of people ranting about cars.

The people who bothered to continue on about cars are all as stupid as each other. It takes two to invade a topic with crap.

just like to add my own opinion,

the 16 year old with the Honda civic, plesae stfu, your car isnt the best in the world.

Hondas are great cars, i personally love them. In my family, we have 5 Honda acords, just my dad, my 3 brothers and my sister.

They are great cars, good on econmy, very reliable, and alot more horsepower than most of the family cars here in the uk.

But, they obviously arent performance cars like the fanboy in this thread is trying to make them out to be. sure, the type-r models are.... well... amazing,

well, thats all i gotta say,