[ gpsdrive ] Not detecting when gpsd has achieved lock

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Jan-Erik Skata wrote:
> I have updated GPSdrive a few weeks ago for the first time in perhaps a
> year.
> Now it seems, it does not detect that gpsd (2.39) has achieved lock and has
> a position. Gpsd has been started before GPSdrive, yet I often have to
> restart GPSdrive after gpsd has triangulated a position (based on querying
> the daemon in telnet). Or is it taking a very long time?
>
> Running Gentoo Linux and Mapnik with OSM.

you can use xgps to check if gpsd really got a fix.

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Joerg