If your GPS doesn't begin the aquisition process immediately upon the application of power then perhaps it is time to take advantage of one of the "fire sale" receivers now available for $15-$25. The one I have is up and running by the time the Empeg has booted and I can select GPSapp.

My remote seems to work just fine while GPSapp is running.

If you were to scan through some of the threads below I think you would find a lot of answers to these and other questions you are asking. They may not be in the FAQ (yet) but the discussion and problem solving that is going on here is responsive, productive and quite inclusive.

http://empeg.comms.net/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=hackers_prog&Number=119138&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=

http://empeg.comms.net/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=hackers_prog&Number=115801&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=

http://empeg.comms.net/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=hackers_prog&Number=104935&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=

You do illustrate a good point in that each of us does have out own set of preferences about how we like to interact with an application and with the geography. Any application will benefit from a certain degree of configurability. On the other hand, Jan has just recently started on this project and he has made more progress per unit time than anyone would or could ever expect, so I think we should all be grateful for what he has done along with his willingness to listen to all of our suggestions

Lynn