2008.9 GPS
Sarton O'Brien
roguemoko at roguewrt.org
Tue Sep 23 02:21:05 CEST 2008
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 03:33:59 Matthew Lane wrote:
> I can't get my GPS to get a fix, even outside. I'm using the latest
> 2008.9 distro from the wiki (as of 9/18/08). My Locations app shows a
> map, attempts to get a fix, and always tells me I can't get a fix in
> sunny weather!
>
> Is anyone else having this issue, or does anyone know of a solution?
Running om2008-testing booting from single partion uSD (kernel on same
partition, loading from /boot/uImage.bin symlink), I have no direct problems.
Performance is a bit meh and it's glitchy.
For locations to work I need to have turned on GPS and let it sit. This can
take a while. If I use tangogps it picks up quicker and then switching to
locations it identifies my position. Tangogps seems to require a bit of task
switching to update the screen, you'll notice this when the map moves but none
of the buttons function. This seems to be a graphical problem.
The accuracy of the GPS seems to be ok. Tangogps reports the speed of my car
almost to the kilometer :) ... which I didn't expect.
Good luck!
Sarton
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