[Xastir] Xastir 1.5 and ESR's gpsd daemon - longitude bad

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Richard E. Polivka wrote:

> The GPS unit will work in NMEA and SI-RF binary modes. Whenever I have gpsd 
> running, it puts the GPS into binary mode. So, IMO, it would have to take the 
> binary data and recreate and serve NMEA strings for clients to use upon the 
> client's request. I will check to see if I can keep gpsd from switching to 
> binary and see if that helps.

Oh. SiRF. I forgot SiRF. Let me see if I can fix it.

>> Note also, is GPSD generating that string? Only Zodiac (earthmate) 
>> generates the strings, otherwise it just passes you what the receiver 
>> sends. If that's what the receiver is sending, gpsd does not, and really, 
>> should not, be patching the strings.