[ gpsdrive ] Simulation mode getting turned on at startup.

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:46:48PM +0200, Guenther Meyer wrote:
> Am Sonntag 15 Juli 2007 schrieb Charles Curley:
> > Try this: shut down gpsdrive. Start it up again. Use the Settings to
> > turn off simulation mode. Shut down gpsdrive. Observe the setting for
> > simfollow in gpsdriverc (it should be 0). Now start gpsdrive up, and
> > shut it down. Again observe the value of simfollow. I see it being
> > change to one.
> 
> yes, but this is the standard behaviour as far as I know.
> it switches to sim mode automatically, when there's no gps available.
> but maybe we should change this to an on/off/auto setting.

I'd appreciate the change. I'm using position mode to move around. I
do not need the thing drifting away from where I set the position.

I'd do it myself, but I don't appear able to check things in right
now.

Thanks

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