Re: [ gpsdrive ] I need assistance.

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On Thursday 11 August 2005 03:33, Sean T. Stevenson wrote:

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> Loading gpsdrive (the 2.9 version currently installed) 

Which one exactly? CVS? CVS-tar?
Donladed which date?

> in my regular user 
> account does not bring up the default map, 

Your're talking about the World Map ?
./src/top_GPSWORLD.jpg ?

> nor can I get the program to 
> recognize my GPS (Garmin GPS 18-LVC) .  When I log in as root and run
> gpsdrive, I get a warning dialog telling me that I shouldn't do that, but
> the map comes up and the gps works as expected (/dev/ttyS0 at 4800 baud).

can you tell us the output of (as user):
        ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
        id

Are you using gpsd? or direct connection?

where are your maps located?
        /home/user/.gpsdrive/expedia/... ?
        or /root/.gpsdrive/expedia/...

Which platform are you running on?


> My first thought was that this must be some sort of permissions problem,
> but when I use the user manager 

"user manager" ? You are talking of id, ls -ld , vi/etc/groups ?
        

> to edit my user account, I appear to have 
> permissions for all groups.  I don't know what else the problem would be.
>
> I still plan to compile the 2.10pre3 version once someone helps me figure
> out what is wrong there, but in the meantime I would like to solve this
> account problem - otherwise I need to run as root to use gpsdrive!

Don't run gpsdrive as root :-(

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