[pkg-fso-maint] zhone deactivating GPS while tangogps still using it?

[Sebastian Reichel]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:17:50AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > 2010/2/26 Steffen Möller <moeller at inb.uni-luebeck.de>:
> > > I found zhone upon login to have started the habit of closing down GPS
> > > even though I am using it in parallel with tangogps - even I finally
> > > had a fix. Has anybody else observed this annoyance? It basically
> > > renders cellhunter unusable on my machine :)
> > >
> > > I am with the fso-gpsd, to the best of my knowledge.
> >
> > Well, for me it seemed to start when I switched from fso-gpsd to gpsd,
> > mainly because I was tired about dealing with the conflicts. I now
> > manually switch on the GPS from a helper application (also downloads
> > AGPS information if network available) and start eg. TangoGPS. Opening
> > and closing Zhone's GPS info section turns GPS off even if TangoGPS
> > would still be running, which is indeed a bit of a pity.
> 
> This is likely caused by fso resource manager has no idea about hardware 
> users that don't register the usage within fso?
> 
> There was a wrapper utility, don't remember the name (maybe fsoraw?), to 
> workaround that.

Hi,

The wrapper utility is indeed caled fsoraw. You can read about the whole
topic here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FSO_Resources

But zhone should not switch from enabled to automatic mode. If it's
already enabled it should just be happy and do nothing.

-- Sebastian
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