Yo Stuart! On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:35:07 -0400 Stuart Blake Tener <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a General Dynamics GD8200 laptop that is inclusive of an
> internal GPS receiver.
Can you say something about that GPS receiver? Make? Model? Serail?
USB? PCIe? What device driver makes it work? My mind reading not
working well today.
> I was able to get GPSD running and cgps does
> show the satellites it sees, etc... However, I am a bit lost as to
> how to ascertain if I have pps capability and how to configure the
> software such that I can access it for setting the time on my laptop.
Usually gpsd can autodetect the PPS. Run ntpshmmon to see if gpsd
found your PPS.
>
> However, if indeed the GPS internal to my laptop does not have PPS
> capability, I am wondering if and how I can use the time within the
> GPS strings to set the clock in the laptop as well.
Did you look at the clock howto? That should be all you need to know.
https://gpsd.io/time-service-intro.html
> I am not sure if I am still a member of the list (I do not get daily
> or weekly emails) but I may have just disabled receiving them in the
> past.
Well, if you don't get this, then you know.
RGDS
GARY
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