ogpsd questions

[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:10:10 +0200, Daniel Willmann wrote:
> For the record, here is the current status regarding your TODO list

FYI, I'm not an expert on GPS or even on the frameworkd internals.

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:14:38 +0200
> Sascha Wessel <wessel at nefkom.net> wrote:
>> * TODO: power off the device when frameworkd is shutting down
>>   (`/etc/init.d/fso-frameworkd restart` while the device is powered on
>>    confuses frameworkd)
>
> This shouldn't be a problem any more as we force GPS off at ogpsd
> startup. Of course turning off GPS on regular shutdown would still be
> nice.

Can I disagree?  Why can't frameworkd cope with the GPS status?  I mean,
I don't understand why the GPS cannot be on *before* starting
frameworkd.  What's the advantage of frameworkd "predating" the GPS?

The situation should be similar for GSM, bluetooth and WiFi, right?

>> * Debian bug #494927
>>   - sometimes disabling of nmea in ubx.py doesn't work
>>   - zhone shows 90.0/0.0 as location
>
> Okay, these are two problems.

I'm sorry, but wasn't that Debian bug already fixed [1]?

> The Discarded data not UBX is pretty much unavoidable since when we
> power the GPS it will start to output NMEA data. ogpsd configures in-
> and output to only UBX, but before this command goes through the GPS
> chip already printed its welcome message.  I could lower the log level
> of that message to DEBUG, though, so it wouldn't confuse people.

Yes, please.

> The problem with zhone showing 90.0/0.0 should be gone now, at least I
> haven't encountered that in a while (ever since the patch that added
> _reset IIRC).

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://projects.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-standards/2008-September/000444.html
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