USB1 equals to COM1? certainly not, but...[pending]

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

A friend of mine has X-Plane 9 running on his Gentoo box.
He´s also got a Garmin Oregon 450.

X-Plane offers the option of displaying the map of the location of the current
flight on the Garmin GPS device while having the cockpit on the monitor at the same time
so that the player/pilot can see his location and movement on the map while flying.

To enable this you have to name a com port from the list of options. But with the Garmin on USB it is
a futile guessing game how to name the com port for the game to find the Garmin on usb.

I am not quite certain whether I have made myself clear.

Does anyone know how to find it out?

eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject:

When you plug in the device, it should dump out the device each usb device is associated with in dmesg. Run

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

eccerr0r !Thank you so much.

We´ll try that and post again if it fails or mark the posting
solved if we´ve succeded.

EasterParade · l33t Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 938

Looks like it is a bit difficult with the Oregon 450.