Re: [Mbm-devel] mbm-gpsd on ubuntu lucid

[Hans M. <Ha...@bi...>]

Thanks for the quick response! See below.

On 06/01/2010 03:12 PM, Torgny Johansson wrote:
>
> HAL is still available in Lucid. I'm running mbm-gpsd there. Make sure
> you have the hal application and lib installed with:
> sudo apt-get install hal libhal-dev
>
> Since you were able to build you should already have that though.
>
>    
Indeed, you are correct. Sorry, found some misleading posts on the 
internet about hal & lucid
apt tells me I have both installed.
> Could you please provide the output from
> sudo lsusb
> sudo lsusb -v
> hal-device
>    
See attached
> and I will try to see if something is going on. Also verify that you
> have the file:
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-mbm.fdi
>    
hans@late6500:~$ ls -l 
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-mbm.fdi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3265 2010-06-01 11:30 
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-mbm.fdi


> You could also try to
> git checkout 2517076425b7295209b96c3b29a48cc0afbde9dd
> and then rerun autogen.sh, make, sudo make install. I did a
> hal-related change in the latest commit, maybe that messed things up
> for you.
>    
No go, still same error:

hans@late6500:~/dev/mbm-gpsd$ sudo mbm-gpsd
** (mbm-gpsd:12556): DEBUG: Started version: 
2517076425b7295209b96c3b29a48cc0afbde9dd
** (mbm-gpsd:12556): DEBUG: HAL couldn't find any devices with 
capability mbm_gps_ctrl.

** ERROR **: Open of (null) failed: Bad address
aborting...
Aborted


Let me know if I need to test anything else.

H.