Did this problem get solved? If so, how? I'd like to be able to run a hijack userland prog that listens to NMEA sentences on the serial port. I've tried renaming the player binary to player.orig and then using a tiny script

#!/bin/bash

/empeg/bin/player.orig -s-

But I get the, out of memory error. I've written all the code, the NMEA parser, the display routines, all I want to do is wrap it up into a nice userland app.