Comment 19 for bug 111694

With a recent Ubuntu update things got good enough to work. I went through the process of getting the new cypress_m8.c from 2.6.24-generic source package. I did the usual change commenting out the "cypress_set_dead(port);" line recompiled and using that module the LT-20 GPS began talking. I had a problem with gpsdrive though. For some reason it wasn't initializing correctly and trying to set preferences caused it to die with segmentation fault. I eventually found manually editing my gpsdriverc file to give a full path for way.txt allowed me to select preferences and get gpsdrive out of simulation mode! Well, it was either that or the other thing I did which was to remove gpsdrive and reinstall it. So, at least I'm back to the "workaround" which had worked in earlier Ubuntus. It would be nice if cypress_m8 were fixed though.