Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 04 August 2008, Al Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 02 August 2008, Michael Shiloh wrote: > > I'm part of Openmoko and I'm not clear on the fix either. > > > > I'm trying to come up with two side-by-side tests we can run, one with > > the SW fix, one without, that is easy to document and requ

Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 02 August 2008, Michael Shiloh wrote: > I'm part of Openmoko and I'm not clear on the fix either. > > I'm trying to come up with two side-by-side tests we can run, one with > the SW fix, one without, that is easy to document and requires the same > distro, then test w/ two different ker

Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-04 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Hmm ok,.. but what about the other questions ;) | | Like have there been talks to the distributors? Any progress there? | How are users supposed to fix their device? Update to current U-Boot and kernel (ta

Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hmm ok,.. but what about the other questions ;) Like have there been talks to the distributors? Any progress there? How are users supposed to fix their device? Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ support mailing li

Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-02 Thread Andy Green
s a 50:50 chance of your USB spamming away at 6MHz with high slew rate, whether connected to anything or not, although I have a fix for that pending. This won't help GPS and has been "invisible", and can explain the next day having "unlucky satellite positions". We're

Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
Russell Sears wrote: > Michael Shiloh wrote: >> Any advice appreciated. > > I've been tricked a few times by what I think was lucky satellite > positions (30-120 sec ttff one day, 20 minutes the next). > > I don't know how long it typically takes the satellites to move from > "lucky" to "unlu

Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-01 Thread Russell Sears
Michael Shiloh wrote: > Any advice appreciated. I've been tricked a few times by what I think was lucky satellite positions (30-120 sec ttff one day, 20 minutes the next). I don't know how long it typically takes the satellites to move from "lucky" to "unlucky", but that probably should be take

Re: GPS issue final state?

2008-08-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > Is it possible that one of the OpenMoko team members put up a wiki-page > (probably protected from changes) or something similar,... and provide > there the most recent, official and authoritative information about the > GPS issue? > > "Everybody" knows

GPS issue final state?

2008-08-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Is it possible that one of the OpenMoko team members put up a wiki-page (probably protected from changes) or something similar,... and provide there the most recent, official and authoritative information about the GPS issue? "Everybody" knows about the two fixes (SW and HW) but a lot of diff