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GPSr Garmin eTrex - eTrex Venture HC/Vista HCx and Linux

QLandkarte is a program to handle GPSr's with Linux. You may transfer waypoints, tracks, routes and even maps to store them on both your HDD and GPSr.
The Garmin H-series with the supersensitive receiver is the "old" hardware equipped with the receiver that used to come only with the GPSr costing 500 Euro and more. Hence it isn't too much of an issue for this program.
Even though the new GPSr's aren't officially supported the protocol seems to be the same as the one used with older receivers. It is just a matter of hours to make QLandkarte support your GPSr. Please refer to the project-homepage and contribute!

Garmin changed the way the screenshot is sent to your computer. Also there was an issue with the dimensions of the VentureHC-display. Both issues are fixed. The files are available in the QLandkarte GT repository.

Update January 30th 2010: Of course all this works for the eTrex Vista HCx as well.

September, 14th 2007
updated on January, 30th 2010

Something about Garmin, USB and Debian

It might be, that your (via USB connected) GPSr isn't working right away. To be able to use the GPSr you'll need to keep the kernel from loading the (frequently dysfunctional) kernel garmin_gps module.
Just edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the lines

blacklist garmin_gps # stop garmin_gps serial from loading for USB garmin devices

To allow the USB devices to be read and written by a non-privileged user, create a named /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules with the following contents

SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="666"

» more about this at http://www.gpsbabel.org

February, 17th 2008
updated on March 16th, 2008