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gpsd package

  1. Bug #57486
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 57486

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Sascha Silbe (sascha-ubuntu-launchpad) wrote :

Binary package hint: gpsd

/usr/share/doc/gpsd/README.Debian tells me gpsd could be started using hotplug, but when I plug in the GPS receiver, the device (/dev/ttyUSB0) gets created, but gpsd won't be started.
/etc/hotplug/usb/gpsd.hotplug exists, but apparently it doesn't get called. Maybe this broke during the transition to udev?

Since the GPS receiver is usually not plugged in at bootup, I cannot simply start gpsd in the default runlevel (the device doesn't exist). So currently I have to start it manually. That's quite annoying.