Re: [gpsd-users] GPSD, xgps, gpsmon

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:24:25 +0300
anthemousios xrysantuos <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, I use UBUNTU 11.10. I am trying to connect a GPS to a USB port of
> my laptop. I have installed gpsd demon. When I use the command gpsmon
> /dev/ttyUSB0 it works and I can see the results and all data coming
> from my GPS. But when I try to use the command xgps /dev/ttyUSB0 I
> get the response gpsd is not running. Additionally when I try to use
> GpsDrive, FoxtrtotGps and other applications that are supposed to use
> GPS, it seems that no GPS data are read from my GPS.
> 
> Can any body help?

What version of gpsd?

xgps should run without arguments.

Check to be sure gpsd is running. E.g.:

address@hidden:~$ ps aux | grep gpsd
nobody    8573  0.5  0.0  21888  1336 ?        S<s  07:39   1:45 gpsd -G -F 
/var/run/gpsd.sock
charles  12328  0.0  0.0   9144  1036 pts/4    S+   13:19   0:00 grep 
--color=auto gpsd
address@hidden:~$ 

If it is running, try "telnet localhost 2947".

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