Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:01:19 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> Cc: Pim Bliek <pim.bliek@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB GPS mouse in Wine Message-ID: <200912141701.28237.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5f67a8c40912132216p577fd75bqb329654f6e3b60ab@mail.gmail.com> References: <fc1af19c0912131447i6f652538g332f65f0222b14c@mail.gmail.com> <200912141142.41897.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <5f67a8c40912132216p577fd75bqb329654f6e3b60ab@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart2179996.qZWW8ic1TJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > I am not really sure what you mean by a GPS mouse.. You mean a USB > > GPS receiver? > > It seems that a "GPS mouse" is a GPS receiver that is the size and > shape of a computer mouse --- although only rather approximately.=20 > It's a horrid term The first time I heard it, I considered for a > moment if someone was using a GPS receiver as the sensor for a mouse > (rather than a ball or laser optics). I only considered this for a > moment... it's obviously not possible. I guessed that's what you meant, but it IS a horrid term :) > > http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPS/Download/Download.html > > > > Can you get it to talk to your device? > > Isn't the key going to be finding one of the USB serial interfaces > that work? For all the technology in a GPS, they communicate via > serial protocols (s.t. the bluetooth ones present a serial profile > --- that's how you get your bluetooth GPS working). I thought you said you had it working with gpsd, is that correct? If no, what appears in dmesg when you plug it in, and what is the output=20 of "sudo usbconfig dump_device_desc"? > Too bad there isn't a small number of standard USB serial protocols > ... like bluetooth. Yes, it is rather annoying :( That said, FreeBSD does support a very large subset of them. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2179996.qZWW8ic1TJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLJdvA5ZPcIHs/zowRAoyvAKClvIA4fEzK+nGoBMYI5bmcHvVzEACghLkP BVfDUbp1Fx7vWzzCzFN2gJs= =WqZd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2179996.qZWW8ic1TJ--
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