Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:39:49PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > About the sequencing, if you have unique ID's to your USB components, one > could hack the hotplug/udev scripts to steer the unique ID to a particular > device name.

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Jason Winningham
On May 24, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Richard Polivka wrote: About the sequencing, if you have unique ID's to your USB components, one could hack the hotplug/udev scripts to steer the unique ID to a particular device name. I did it a long time ago for a M$ GPS dongle but I do not remember how to do

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on a handheld

2007-05-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > Ones that come to mind: > > > Sharp Zaurus (runs Linux, but with Qt instead of Motif, no X11) > Nokia N800 (runs Linux, but with GTk instead of Motif) > Palm Treo Smartphone (runs PalmOS, but can boot Linux too) Here's a good site that might get you

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on a handheld

2007-05-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Carl Makin wrote: > On 25/05/2007, at 5:53 AM, William McKeehan wrote: > > > There are some hand held devices (such as a Palm) that can run some > > flavor of > > Linux, right? > > > > Are there any that are big enough to compile and run Xastir on? > > > > Anyone tried it? Any

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on a handheld

2007-05-24 Thread Carl Makin
Hi William, On 25/05/2007, at 5:53 AM, William McKeehan wrote: There are some hand held devices (such as a Palm) that can run some flavor of Linux, right? Are there any that are big enough to compile and run Xastir on? Anyone tried it? Anyone have a recommendation for which hand held devi

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Richard Polivka
About the sequencing, if you have unique ID's to your USB components, one could hack the hotplug/udev scripts to steer the unique ID to a particular device name. I did it a long time ago for a M$ GPS dongle but I do not remember how to do it. 73 from 807, Richard, N6NKO Tom Russo

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:38:12AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 18:09 -0600, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: > > Ah -- how do I use my Deluo "hockey puck" GPS with Xastir under > > Kubuntu? > > I've bee

[Xastir] Xastir on a handheld

2007-05-24 Thread William McKeehan
There are some hand held devices (such as a Palm) that can run some flavor of Linux, right? Are there any that are big enough to compile and run Xastir on? Anyone tried it? Anyone have a recommendation for which hand held device to investigate for this purpose? -- William KI4HDU __

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Fred Erickson
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 18:09 -0600, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: > Ah -- how do I use my Deluo "hockey puck" GPS with Xastir under > Kubuntu? > I've been using the GPS in Windows XP, but I don't know how to configure the > GPS at all under Kubuntu. > > Thanks, > Earl >

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Richard Polivka
Something additional...when you do the dmesg look, also do a "lsusb" run from the command line. "dmesg" will tell you if the USB dongle bound or not - "lsusb" is sterile. If the USB handler does not recognize the vendor/product id's, it won't work. The unit should show up as a comm port if it reg

Re: [Xastir] Mac with v1.8.4 problems

2007-05-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Keith Kaiser wrote: > I have successfully loaded 1.8.4 to my Mac but when I start it all that > happens is the Xastir window opens sits there for a few moments, looks like > its trying to load 'terraserver-urban.geo' and then closes down. No errors > or anything. > > I've incl

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Gerry Creager
Does it look like a regular serial port in XP? And, when you plug it into the linux box, have you done a 'dmesg' and seen what it reports as? gerry Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: Ah -- how do I use my Deluo "hockey puck" GPS with Xastir under Kubuntu? I've been using the GPS in Windows XP,

Re: [Xastir] Mac with v1.8.4 problems

2007-05-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On May 24, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Keith Kaiser wrote: I have successfully loaded 1.8.4 to my Mac but when I start it all that happens is the Xastir window opens sits there for a few moments, looks like its trying to load 'terraserver-urban.geo' and then closes down. No errors or anything. I'v

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Brown
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: > > Ah -- how do I use my Deluo "hockey puck" GPS with Xastir under > Kubuntu? > I've been using the GPS in Windows XP, but I don't know how to configure the > GPS at all under Kubuntu. Haven't used Kubuntu, specifically, but if the