Gpsbabel
does not work at all in brand new fedora 15.
I have followed
suggestions from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713483
and rebuild it from the source .rpm
. I have also
fixed udev
rules, as described
here:
## /etc/udev/rules.d/51-garmin.rules SYSFS{idVendor}=="091e", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003", MODE="0666"
Now (sometimes) I was able to fetch GPX trace but only as a root.
Inspecting /var/log/messages
I noticed suspicious
messages from
gpsd daemon, ie:
Aug 14 16:50:09 darkstar gpsd.hotplug: gpsd_control(action=add,arg=/dev/ttyUSB0)
Moreover the deamon starts/stops in some tricky way as it is down
if one looks in Programs →Administration→Services, but
ps uax | grep gpsd
indicates something contrary:
nobody 2530 0.0 0.0 12652 1412 ? S<s 13:31 0:00 gpsd -n -F /var/run/gpsd.sock
As gpsbabel
works flawlessly
in my fc11 w/o gpsd I have decided to remove it:
yum erase gpsd ## removes also following dependencies: kdeutils-libs-4.6.5-2.fc15.i686 kdeutils-4.6.5-2.fc15.i686 kde-settings-kdm-4.6-10.fc15.noarch kdm-4.6.5-2.fc15.i686 digikam-1.9.0-2.fc15.i686 digikam-libs-1.9.0-2.fc15.i686 kdeedu-marble-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686 kdeedu-marble-libs-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686 kdeplasma-addons-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686 kdeplasma-addons-libs-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686 ktorrent-4.1.1-1.fc15.i686 ktorrent-libs-4.1.1-1.fc15.i686 kpackagekit-0.6.3.3-2.fc15.i686 kde-plasma-networkmanagement-vpnc-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686 kde-plasma-networkmanagement-openvpn-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686 plasma-scriptengine-python-4.6.5-2.fc15.i686 kdenetwork-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686 kdenetwork-libs-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686 kde-plasma-networkmanagement-pptp-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686 kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686 kde-plasma-networkmanagement-libs-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686 kdebase-workspace-4.6.5-2.fc15.i686 kdebase-workspace-libs-4.6.5-2.fc15.i686 gpsd-2.95-6.fc15.i686 ## and disables the following udev rules: ostrzeżenie: /etc/udev/rules.d/99-gpsd.rules zapisano jako /etc/udev/rules.d/99-gpsd.rules.rpmsave
Pretty surprising that so many KDE packages depends on gpsd!
Now I have access to gpsbabel
as normal user.
(It needs 10--20 second to plug
the device in fc15 while in fc11 it was instantaneously.)
Moreover my Gnome3 desktop once unusable looks much better (I still intend to use Xfce however). It seems KDE in FC15 interfere in a nasty way...
Added 24 august 2011:
Xine error while playing .avi
file resolved.
$ rpm -qa '*ffmpeg*' ffmpeg-devel-0.7-0.3.20110612git.fc15.i686 ffmpeg-libs-0.7-0.3.20110612git.fc15.i686 $ rpm remove ffmpeg-devel $ yum downgrade ffmpeg-libs Removed: ffmpeg-libs.i686 0:0.7-0.3.20110612git.fc15 Installed: ffmpeg-libs.i686 0:0.6.90-0.2.rc0.fc15
xine
now works with .avi
. Btw:
$ rpm -qa '*git*' emacs-git-el-1.7.6-1.fc15.noarch emacs-git-1.7.6-1.fc15.noarch git-1.7.6-1.fc15.i686
It appears ffmpeg-libs-0.7-0.3.20110612git
and ffmpeg-devel-0.7-0.3.20110612git
were the only compiled from git
shapshots
packages installed in my system
(providing gip snapshots are always marked
by adding git
to package name).
It is convenient to add exclude=ffmpeg-libs
to /etc/yum.conf
to prevent
yum
to update
ffmpeg
libs with yum update
command.
Added 31 august 2011:
According to man xine
one can specify
``additional command line arguments'' using ~/.xine/xinerc
where
each line specifies an additional command line argument. However
--geometry 990x650
does not work, as well as
-G 990x650
.
By trial and error I have figure out the only(?) working
syntax:
##vi ~/.xine/xinerc -G990x650
Note no space after -G
.