Thread: Maemo Mapper v2.2 for OS2006/OS2007/OS2008
View Single Post
crawdad is offline crawdad
2007-12-09 , 07:02
Posts: 11 | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on Oct 2007
#63
Originally Posted by ag2 View Post
One thing I noticed with /usr/libexec/navicore-gpsd-helper is that when you CTRL-C it, it doesn't shut down the GPS (even though the GPS icon goes away). You can tell that the GPS is still on by cat'ing /dev/pgps.
Strange, on my system the Icon stays in place...
What I was doing (before learning that telling it to use unspecified bluetooth would do the trick) was run the /usr/libexec/navicore-gpsd-helper, control-C it, THEN start the MaemoMapper application.
Exiting MaemoMapper then shuts off the GPS.