On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:36:04 +0200 [email protected] wrote:
> Hello. > > I've had the neo freefrunner gta-02 a few weeks. > After browsing through a few distributions, qtmoko became my choice. I > think this distribution is really great! I flashed the kernel and > rootfs with > uImage-v21.bin > and > qtmoko-debian-v21.jffs2 > respectively and all seems ok, maybe better than ok :-) > > Only one irksome thing that is turning me away from qtmoko... > > I can not for the life of me get GPS to work using NeronGPS. > I took the following steps after flashing: > > (1) apt-get gpsd (this starts on booting after a little play with the > config for gpsd). > neo:~# /etc/init.d/gpsd restart > Stopping GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon: gpsd. > Starting GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon: gpsd. > neo:~# > > (2) Fire up NeronGPS.... > > What happens, is that NeronGPS runs, I can download maps from OM_map, > for example. What never hapens is getting a fix. My phone is > permanently stuck with the message "Wait for fix". Have I missed > something obvious here? This is a bug in v21. The sysfs node that turns on power to the gps device has changed. It's now /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/pcf50633-regltr.7/neo1973-pm-gps.0/power_on If you change /opt/qtmoko/bin/gps-poweron.sh and /opt/qtmoko/bin/gps-poweroff.sh to reflect this change it will work. regards Florian > > In short: Is there a sure-fire way of getting GPS up-and-running? > > Best, > Toby _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
