Comments on: GPS driver for FIC GTA01 in beta

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:59:04 +0000

Seems to work ok here.

Didn't find any 'native' packaged apps to test with on the device itself and got bored looking at /tmp/nmeaNP, so I installed and ran gpsd (ipkg install gpsd, set GPS_DEV="/tmp/nmeaNP" in /etc/default/gpsd, /etc/init.d/gpsd start) on the Neo and "gpsdrive -b 192.168.0.202" on the desktop. Connected ok, and even shows the right spot on the map :-)

In terms of resources it certainly seems light enough - according to top, gpsd uses about 2-3% CPU when in use and 0% when idle, while gllin is always at 0%.

Now if someone would port maemo mapper to openmoko...

By: Bartek

Bartek — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:16:42 +0000

I’m not sure if you’re asking for solution about using gllin. Here’s my article about that

http://www.openmoko.org.pl/en/node/55

Best regards. Bartek

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:34:43 +0000

Bartek: I know few solutions – the one which you suggest was already tried. This official one is based on other attempt and use less space (which is expensive on 64MB flash GTA01).