[debian & gps] How to check gps

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Wed Sep 24 16:50:53 CEST 2008


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' and got no pos result.

I can't say - haven't tried debian yet as I can't get my SD to behave reliably 
as rootfs.

> I just want to have a gps function, christian
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 15:22 +0100 schrieb 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 subsystem of FSO's frameworkd. It replaces gpsd
> > > >          it implements the Gypsy API communicating with applications
> > > >          via dbus
> > > > fso-gpsd - is a compatibility shim to translate Gypsy messages for
> > > >             applications that expect gpsd
> > > > tangogps - a map/gps application
> > > > tangogps-fso - a version of tangogps that has been modified to
> > > >                 understand Gypsy messages
> > > >
> > > > <sarcasm>
> > > > I don't know how you could find this confusing.
> > > > </sarcasm>
> > > >
> > > > That is why I said "something is talking to your GPS", if you have a
> > > > stock FSO then you have ogpsd talking to the gps and tangogps (the
> > > > FSO version) and Zhone are getting their data via Gypsy. You don't
> > > > need gpsd
> > > > or fso-gpsd in this situation.
> > >
> > > 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' nor
> > > 'tango'. After a selfmade confusion with my servers iptables I
> > > installed also netutils-ping and dnsutils. Thats all.
> > >
> > > So, please give me a hint what to de-install and which combination to
> > > install and how to configured it. Maybe also the startup with zhone
> > > gui, currently I need to start tangogps by xterm.
> > >
> > > BTW, I checked my process list and couldn't find any other gpsd except
> > >
> > > fso-gpsd:
> > > > debian-gta02:~# ps -ef|grep gps
> > > > root      1524     1  0 11:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/fso-gpsd -P
> > > > /var/run/fso-gpsd.pid
> > >
> > > The reboot was several hours before...
> >
> > I think you need ogpsd running too. ogpsd talks to the gps and outputs
> > data in gypsy format over dbus. fso-gpsd reads gypsy format data from
> > dbus and outputs gpsd format data for apps needing to use gpsd.
>
> ...






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