[Gta04-owner] qtmoko qtopiawhereabouts using gpsd

[Stefan Wildemann]

Hi together,

I've almost finished porting gpsdwhereabouts to use libgps and therefore 
nicely comunicate with
current gpsd. Basically my port is working, but needs some code-cleanup 
before I'll post it here.
Btw: What's the preferred method to bring patches to qtmoko?

But as always I discovered one qtmoko (Debian) question. Where to 
correctly report build
time dependency to libgps-dev package and install time dependency to 
libgps20. I Think it should work
with older libgps19 as well but I did not test it yet.

Second thing I stumbled upon: Can someone confirm that gpsd is switching 
the gps device to talk
SiRF binary protocol on the first client connection but fails to detect 
the device on subsequent connection?
I think this is because opening and closing /dev/ttyO1 resets the gps 
device and therefore switches it back to
NMEA. Or the gps device's firmware is broken as many others too.

I found out that adding GPSD_OPTIONS="-b" to /etc/default/gpsd fixes 
this by not switching to SiRF binary.

Greetings
Stefan