Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-10-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Christian Weßel wrote: Hello, tangogps and fso-gpsd were installed from http://ftp2.de.debian.org, but I get no fix. In the Trip tab tango shows allways an alternating GPS Time (Tue 1999-11-30 00:00:00 or Fri 1999-11-31 01:00:00) and Satelites: 11/0. The rest

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Dima Kogan wrote: Can you please elaborate? Do any of the actions you mentioned actually BREAK fso-gpsd? The reason for having a gps daemon in the first place is to provide shared access to a resource that isn't directly sharable. Having 2 daemons running at

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Christian Weßel
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

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Al Johnson
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

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Christian Weßel
Ok, if I understand in right: HW SW SW SW gps - ogpsd - fso-gpsd - tangogps - location Right? Ok, and in which package I can find ogpsd? I search for 'ogpsd' and got no pos result. I just want to have a gps function, christian Am Mittwoch, den

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Christian Weßel wrote: Ok, if I understand in right: HW SW SW SW gps - ogpsd - fso-gpsd - tangogps - location Right? That's my understanding, yes. Ok, and in which package I can find ogpsd? I search for 'ogpsd'

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Fox Mulder
Al Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Christian Weßel wrote: Ok, if I understand in right: HW SW SW SW gps - ogpsd - fso-gpsd - tangogps - location Right? That's my understanding, yes. As far as i know Location doesn't use FSO-gpsd. It

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
Fox Mulder, 2008-09-24 17:51:30 +0200 : If someone of you manage to use fso-gpsd with tangogps for more than a few minutes without problems than please report it. My try to do so ended in a failure why i use (old) gpsd at the moment. It works for me. I don't record traces these days because

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Fox Mulder
Roland Mas wrote: Fox Mulder, 2008-09-24 17:51:30 +0200 : If someone of you manage to use fso-gpsd with tangogps for more than a few minutes without problems than please report it. My try to do so ended in a failure why i use (old) gpsd at the moment. It works for me. I don't record

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Fox Mulder wrote: Al Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Christian Weßel wrote: Ok, if I understand in right: HWSW SW SW gps - ogpsd - fso-gpsd - tangogps - location Right? That's my

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
Fox Mulder, 2008-09-24 18:10:13 +0200 : It works for me. I don't record traces these days because I'm stuck at home working, but I get a fix that lasts for as long as I've looked at it so far. And you use debian and only deinstalled gpsd und installed fso-gpsd for that to work? Yes.

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Fox Mulder
Ok, than this bug still exists. I think i will stick to gpsd a bit longer until fso-gpsd works a bit more reliable. ;) Roland Mas wrote: Fox Mulder, 2008-09-24 18:10:13 +0200 : It works for me. I don't record traces these days because I'm stuck at home working, but I get a fix that lasts

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread Roland Mas
Fox Mulder, 2008-09-24 18:28:25 +0200 : Ok, than this bug still exists. Actually... I left the FR running since my last mail, and it now displays the correct GPS time. I didn't keep an eye on it, so I don't know how long it took. Roland. -- Roland Mas Bee There Orr Bee A Rectangular

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-24 Thread -stacy
Christian Weßel wrote: 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'

[debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-23 Thread Christian Weßel
Hello, tangogps and fso-gpsd were installed from http://ftp2.de.debian.org, but I get no fix. In the Trip tab tango shows allways an alternating GPS Time (Tue 1999-11-30 00:00:00 or Fri 1999-11-31 01:00:00) and Satelites: 11/0. The rest is zero. The zhone internal gps appl. shows at the start

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-23 Thread Fox Mulder
For me fso-gpsd didn't work right so i changed back to gpsd and everything works like a charm with gps. :) Maybe you try installing gpsd and deinstall fso-gpsd. Ciao, Rainer Christian Weßel wrote: Hello, tangogps and fso-gpsd were installed from http://ftp2.de.debian.org, but I get no

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-23 Thread Dima Kogan
To check the raw data coming out of the device, do cat /dev/ttySAC1 | grep GGA This should give you a line of data every second or so. Once a fix has been established, these lines contain latitude,longitude values in plain ASCII. The gpsd daemon (whether true gpsd or fso-gpsd) should make this

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-23 Thread Sascha Wessel
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:24:16PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: To check the raw data coming out of the device, do cat /dev/ttySAC1 | grep GGA This should give you a line of data every second or so. Once a fix has been established, these lines contain latitude,longitude values in plain

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-23 Thread Dima Kogan
Can you please elaborate? Do any of the actions you mentioned actually BREAK fso-gpsd? On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:54:32 +0200 Sascha Wessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:24:16PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: To check the raw data coming out of the device, do cat

Re: [debian gps] How to check gps

2008-09-23 Thread -stacy
This thread has stirred up a lot of incorrect information, I will try to help with the original question and then try to mudify the fuzzifications as it were... Christian Weßel wrote: Hello, tangogps and fso-gpsd were installed from http://ftp2.de.debian.org, but I get no fix. In the Trip