Re: [gpsd-users] gps setup fails

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eugene!

On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:36:02 -0500
Eugene B Imes <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 14:55 -0700, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > Yo Eugene!
> > 
> > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:35:48 -0500
> > Eugene B Imes <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   
> > > 
> > > Well, I want gpsd to be running at the end of the log I presented.
> > > It
> > > is not. Maybe there is a option that I should include. I tried '-
> > > n'.
> > > No joy.  
> > 
> > And how do you know it is not?  Can you define 'running'?  
> 
> 'p gpsd' does it everytime
> 
> address@hidden:~# alias p
> ps aux | grep

OK, not good.

> > Have you looked at the troubleshooting.html file and followed its
> > instructions?  
> 
> Yes, no go.

Well, I guess I gotta add "cat /dev/ttyAMA0" in there.

> > And before you even look at gpsd, you need to confirm your GPS is
> > running
> > fine:
> >     # cat /dec/ttyAMA0  
> 
> This yields nothing. However if I start gpsd manually the log will
> show gps messages every second.

Well, no point looking at much else until that works.

> 'gpsd -D 9 -n -N -F /var/run/gpsd.sock'
> 
> gpsd then runs normally and xgps works as well.

Not my recommended way to run gpsd, what did you do that did not work?

And that only works when a bunch of other distro specific stuff is setup.

I'm thinking maybe you are not getting the right serial port, or
serial port setup properly?

> 'udevadm --debug monitor' didn't give much either, just plug and
> unplug events.

Now I am really confused, you think your GPS is on /dev/ttyAMA0, but
then you wonder why it does not show up on USB??

What are the details for your setup?  What type host?  Distro?
Configuration? GPS?  What serial port?

RGDS
GARY
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