[pkg-fso-maint] zhone deactivating GPS while tangogps still using it?

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

> 2010/2/26 Steffen Möller <moeller at inb.uni-luebeck.de>:
> > I found zhone upon login to have started the habit of closing down GPS
> > even though I am using it in parallel with tangogps - even I finally
> > had a fix. Has anybody else observed this annoyance? It basically
> > renders cellhunter unusable on my machine :)
> >
> > I am with the fso-gpsd, to the best of my knowledge.
>
> Well, for me it seemed to start when I switched from fso-gpsd to gpsd,
> mainly because I was tired about dealing with the conflicts. I now
> manually switch on the GPS from a helper application (also downloads
> AGPS information if network available) and start eg. TangoGPS. Opening
> and closing Zhone's GPS info section turns GPS off even if TangoGPS
> would still be running, which is indeed a bit of a pity.

This is likely caused by fso resource manager has no idea about hardware 
users that don't register the usage within fso?

There was a wrapper utility, don't remember the name (maybe fsoraw?), to 
workaround that.
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