Re: Accessing GPS on Nokia N810
Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-10 12:08:40]: > I built cgps from the gpsd toolkit, which can get data from gpsd if it's > running. If I start the Nokia map, gpsd starts up. But I can't see how to > start it manually - if I try, it says > GPS device /dev/pgp nonexistent or can't be read That /dev/pgps device is just symlink to /dev/pts/X created by gpsdriver on demand done via D-Bus and Unix socket probably. I'm investigating it further with strace, because I would like to control GPS from scripts also. -- ynezz ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Accessing GPS on Nokia N810
Any tips on accessing the GPS on the N810 ? I built cgps from the gpsd toolkit, which can get data from gpsd if it's running. If I start the Nokia map, gpsd starts up. But I can't see how to start it manually - if I try, it says GPS device /dev/pgp nonexistent or can't be read hmmm ... if I start /usr/libexec/navicore-gpsd-helper manually, it emits NMEA sentences on stdout. Hmmm have to try that outside to see if if really works .. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Nokia N810 and Google Maps
FYI I just noticed that if I have "Fit width to view" checked in the browser on my N810, that Google Maps won't display. Well, it does, but the maps are blank. As I had had it checked the first time I tried Google Maps, I thought "**! it, it won't work!" (the Google Map API is something I want to play with using the GPS). (It might be nice to have a mobile version for the N8* tablets, not that the regular one won't work, but because I'd like to use less bandwidth if I'm connected via my cellphone and paying byte charges. But I think it's only available for Symbion, Windows Mobile and Java. Actually, what I really want is to overlay the Google results on the Nokia or Maemo-mapper maps that I already have, rather than downloading tiles over GPRS) -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Stale timezone rules for Canada
Yesterday was clock-forward time for most of the US and Canada, but my N810 failed to switch. I only bought it a few weeks ago, AND I upgraded to the latest OS2008 53.1 or whatever. Canada decided to follow the US on this province-by-province, but BC decided on 31 March 2006 and the Linux zone sources were updated the next day. So I'm wondering why Nokia has failed to update given nearly 2 years notice. In Maemo, timezones are in the libc6 package. I have maemo-scratchbox-4.0.1 and the zones weren't all correct there, either. But I was able to update libc and that seemed to fix Vancouver. Prior to that, I was able to recompile the North American rules with zic and copy the Vancouver zone to my N810, solving my immediate problem, as per my page http://andrew.triumf.ca/dst.html I have made a stab at collecting updated Canadian zones from my FC4 system (just because I've got it. It should really be done from source) and made http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/free/binary-armel/tzdata-canada-2006.deb this wants to overwrite files from libc6 but is not a complete replacement for libc6. Not sure how to do it in apt-get, but this works: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata-canada-2006_2006g_armel.deb so now $ zdump -v America/Yellowknife|grep 2008 gets America/Yellowknife Sun Mar 9 08:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 01:59:59 2008 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200A instead of America/Yellowknife Sun Apr 6 08:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Apr 6 01:59:59 2008 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200 -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Is there an implementation of diff for OS2008?
Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote on Tue Mar 4: > Is there an implementation of diff for OS2008? I recently ported diffutils from my home desktop (Fedora Core 4). I'm still trying to get my head around Debian packaging and .install files (Fedora uses RPM and Yum. Debian's easier, but different) so my .install doesn't work. Maybe it just needs to be "user" instead of "free". So far, I have ported a few odd things I can't do without: diffutils - diff,sdiff,diff3 bc - arbitrary precision calculator bzman - emulates "man" using preformatted, bzipped pages cron - kind of works, but is missing "mail" gnuplot - X based plotting program less lynx - text-mode web browser nc - netcat tcp/udp client/server http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/free/binary-armel/ Now that I look, diff and less were probably in /scratchbox/tools/bin all along, but I couldn't find them on my N810 with "apt-get install less". -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: osso-gnupg
"ext Kip Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could you try to compile it yourself? > > I would like to try that. I know how to build the package from source on > my desktop Debian system, but not sure for maemo. Something like... > > apt-get source gnupg > apt-get build-deps gnupg > dpkg-buildpackage ... Yes, that should be all that is needed. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Restoring on screen keyboard
Paul Gear wrote: > I experience this issue as well sometimes when i use my Thinkoutside > Bluetooth foldable keyboard. Like you, i've found no workaround. I updated to the second release of OS2008 (51-3 is it?) and tried again. It seems to work for me if I just yank the USB connector out now, but not if I gracefully remove the device with the USB applet. Maybe it's gracefully removing it that causes the issue? At any rate, it seemed to work most of the time. It can still be flaky. It seems best to have something like Notes open when you plug in the keyboard, and also when you unplug it. Matt ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
