On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Christian Weßel wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 23.09.2008, 22:55 -0600 schrieb -stacy: > > First, lets look at the players in this mess... > > > > gpsd - this is our good old friend from http://gpsd.berlios.de/ "True > > gpsd" someone called it. > > ogpsd - this is a subsystem of FSO's frameworkd. It replaces gpsd > > it implements the Gypsy API communicating with applications > > via dbus > > fso-gpsd - is a compatibility shim to translate Gypsy messages for > > applications that expect gpsd > > tangogps - a map/gps application > > tangogps-fso - a version of tangogps that has been modified to > > understand Gypsy messages > > > > <sarcasm> > > I don't know how you could find this confusing. > > </sarcasm> > > > > That is why I said "something is talking to your GPS", if you have a > > stock FSO then you have ogpsd talking to the gps and tangogps (the FSO > > version) and Zhone are getting their data via Gypsy. You don't need > > gpsd > > or fso-gpsd in this situation. > > Thanx for the detail explaination, but I am still a little confused. > > After installation of Debian I followed the tangogps guide from OM wiki. > I installed fso-gps and tangogps, both with <apt-get install fso-gps > tangogps> and it doesn't work together. Neither 'location' nor 'tango'. > After a selfmade confusion with my servers iptables I installed also > netutils-ping and dnsutils. Thats all. > > So, please give me a hint what to de-install and which combination to > install and how to configured it. Maybe also the startup with zhone gui, > currently I need to start tangogps by xterm. > > BTW, I checked my process list and couldn't find any other gpsd except > fso-gpsd: > > debian-gta02:~# ps -ef|grep gps > > root 1524 1 0 11:32 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/fso-gpsd -P > > /var/run/fso-gpsd.pid > > The reboot was several hours before...
I think you need ogpsd running too. ogpsd talks to the gps and outputs data in gypsy format over dbus. fso-gpsd reads gypsy format data from dbus and outputs gpsd format data for apps needing to use gpsd. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community