[amsat-bb] Ubuntu, GPredict and Wine

[Greg D]

Hi Rick,

I expect your P-III CPU is doing just fine.  I had a similar problem 
with gpredict seemingly locking up during a pass when driving my rotor.  
The problem was apparently a lack of a response from my controller to a 
polling operation (which, being a home-brew device, I never bothered to 
implement).  Changing the timeout to 1 effectively disabled that 
feature, with no apparent ill effects.

You might be having the same problem, but with the rig control program.  
Try adding -C timeout=1 to the rigctl command line, and see if that works.

Good luck,

Greg  KO6TH


Richard Lawn wrote:
> A number of you have tried to help this Linux novice over recent weeks. I
> did successfully get HamLib, FlDigi and CQrLog all to run and talk to my
> FT847 using CAT. My attempts to get GPredict to work well though have
> failed even after compiling and installing the most recent version t
> A number of you have tried to help this Linux novice over recent weeks. I
> did successfully get HamLib, FlDigi and CQrLog all to run and talk to my
> FT847 using CAT. My attempts to get GPredict to work well though have
> failed even after compiling and installing the most recent version that
> addresses the earlier FT847 bugs. It now works, talking to the CAT port on
> my radio however the software locks up while trying to track a satellite
> pass. I'm thinking as some feared this old Pentium III may just not have
> enough horse power!
>
> I then tried Wine, thinking I might run it from within Ubuntu to then run
> theSatPC32.exe. I guess I don't know the correct language to fine the path
> and call up this exe from my Windows partition. Anyone have any suggestions
> in this regard?
>
> Thanks to all, I've learned a lot but may have to face the music and find a
> more modern computer.
> 73
> Rick
> W2JAZ
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