Re: [Xastir] where to send bug reports?
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Joop Stakenborg wrote: Where do I send bug reports about xastir? It isn't clear to me from the source code. http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir on the Bug Tracker. Feature requests go on the feature request tracker, also known as RFE (Request For Enhancement). -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir and soundmodem?
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: speaking from my own experience: soundmodem looks particularly attractive, especially to a novice who just dropped a bunch of $$ on a radio, as it appears one can get a TNC for free. As it turns out, soundmodem is probably _the_ most complicated and difficult way to get into packet/APRS barring building a TNC from discrete transistors. I wouldn't have put it quite that strong, but yes, it can be daunting, particularly if you're setting up AX.25 kernel networking at the same time. If you bypass that and just go with the Serial KISS TNC setup for soundmodem instead, it's easier, but still not a total breeze. I suspect if a few of us who have set it up before got together and wrote a step-by-step on the Wiki, we'd be able to keep it up to date from then on. I've got many years under my belt with AX.25 on Linux (KISS TNC's attached to real serial ports). I've only done soundmodem setups a few times and never set up transmit with it. For that matter I always thought the AX.25 HOWTO would do better as a Wiki. It's perpetually out of date. If you've got the patience and electronics knowledge, go for it. I personally would drop Scott $32 for an OT1+ kit that can do KISS mode. Or a TNC-X. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir and soundmodem?
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Gary Huntress wrote: First I configured soundmodem as MKISS. I started it and it created interface sm0. I went into interface control and I think the right type is ax25 tnc. There is no device /dev/sm0 but since there is an interface sm0 I just entered that for the device name. I got hard fail when I tried to bring it up. There's more to this form of setup than what you did. Look up the Linux AX.25 HOWTO document. Then I realized (quite by accident) that if I configured soundmodem as KISS, then I get an actual /dev/soundmodem0 device. So I selected Serial KISS TNC, and entered /dev/soundmodem0, but again got a hard failure. Yes, an alternate method but it doesn't use the kernel AX.25 drivers in this case. No matter if all you want is to connect Xastir to it. The missing piece here is to grant read/write privileges to the serial port, for the user or group that Xastir is running under. Alternately you can do chmod 7455 /usr/local/bin/xastir as root, which lets Xastir run as root when it needs to. Xastir backs off to normal user privileges when it doesn't. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] question on weather setup
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Steve Jones wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at12:36 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: format that is common, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was now. It might be listed in one of our Feature Request items. Probably WXNOW.TXT which seems to be readable by almost anything except Xastir. Yep, that's the one. At the time we received the first request for that I believe we were only capable of running under Cygwin on Windows machines, and the package that wrote the WXNOW.TXT file was a Windows-only package, so we didn't give it much priority. Since then we've had maybe one or two requests a year for support and Xastir runs under Windows using at least two more methods. Perhaps the weather program runs on Linux now too. In any case it's probably time to think about adding in support for the format, which can give us more ability in the future for supporting more formats if it's written in a general fashion. Hopefully Clay will get some time to look at that in the near future. I'll be glad to help here and there with integration but can't be point-man on the project right now. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] question on weather setup
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Steve Jones wrote: I managed to get Xastir running on my OSX machine so it would be nice to move the TNC and radio over to it and shut down the PC. Or throw Linux on it so that it is as reliable as your OSX box. ;-) -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] question on weather setup
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, ml41782 wrote: I have a separate weather system. That monitors my solar and wind farm as well as the one wire weather system. I only monitor temperature and wind data as it rlates to my Solar and wind energy. Is there a specific file name and directory that I can put the wind and temperature data into on my debian box for xastir to pick it up and transmit it. Xastir provides no facilities to snag weather data from files. It can receive weather data in these ways: *) Directly from devices. *) From a database fed by an actual device (Davis w/Meteo daemon or LaCrosse w/open2300 daemon). *) From daemons which get their data from actual devices (OWW or wx200d daemons). It's possible one could modify one of the daemons to pull from a file instead of a device, but to my knowledge noone has done that yet. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] New Installation Notes / HowTo for Ubuntu 8.10 8.04
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Tyler Parsons wrote: I had a working Xastir version 1.9.1 under Ubuntu 8.04. I upgraded to 8.10 and all the geo links stopped working - Tiger maps, Terraserver, etc. I reloaded a completely fresh 8.10, downloaded Xastir 1.9.1 via synaptic, and still got the same problem with the on-line maps. There is a note in the Ubuntu Forums that this seems to be a problem. Something about wget and libcurl not being found. The path to wget is compiled into Xastir if support for wget is included at configure time. On my OpenSuSE-11 system it's at /usr/bin/wget. Libcurl is a library, so same for it, except that the library must be found instead of the executable. See if you have something like libcurl.so.4 in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib directories. Also see if the directory you found it in is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. If not, add the directory there and run ldconfig as root. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Intrepid VM testing
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: I'm looking for some test maps to try out. I can try some shapefiles posted at TAMU but would also like to try other types such as JPG's, PNG's or GIF's with their associated geo files and any other formats that you may suggest. http://wetnet.net/~we7u/xastir/maps/ -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] [Fwd: Re: [linuxham] Xastir]
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: On 11/15/08, Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:42:40PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: --snip- Fyi, I also installed the geotiff packages from the ubuntu repository instead of using the get-maptools script. Knowing from recent experience with other Debian based distros that the header files get installed in /usr/include/geotiff, I copied them into /usr/include before compiling Xastir, and it seems happy with that. This is probably not best practice, as those copies will not be updated if the package is updated. Better practice would be to tell configure to add /usr/include/geotiff to the search path, which is easily done: /path/to/configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/geotiff Then you don't have orphaned copies of geotiff headers, and configure can still find the ones that the package installs in the nonstandard place. For my own use, it's probably 6 one way and half a dozen the other. If I do the configure mod, I'll lose it every time I rebuild Xastir. For a pre-built VM to be distributed to others, I think I'll just install geotiff from souce as shown in the wiki. How'z about creating symlinks in /usr/include to the real spot instead? That way it picks up any updates and Xastir's configure can still find the package. Another alternative might be to tweak the xastir update script in your distributed VMWare image to include the configure option and insist that people use that to upgrade to the latest CVS. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] ubuntu 8.10 xastir package
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Murry wrote: I had this problem with no online maps loading and tried Xastir 1.9.4 and now I don't have that problem, however if I load the Canada 250k topo maps I see them downloading but my map screen turns black and has only the map grid showing, other online maps are fine. I have Graphics Magick installed, would ImageMagick make the difference? I also am using the built in Shapelib. I use PCLinuxOS, everything else works fine. It's possible that the GM you're using was configured using --with-quantum-depth=8 (the default for GM), whereas Xastir needs --with-quantum-depth=16 If you remove the GM-devel package and install the IM and IM-devel packages, configure/make/make install Xastir, it should switch over to using IM instead of GM. Hopefully that'll work for you. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] ubuntu 8.10 xastir package
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Rick Green wrote: xastir 1.9.2 is available in the Ubuntu repository for (X|K|U)buntu 8.10 However, an attempt to load online maps(tigermap.geo) in this version fails with 'libcurl or wget not present', even though they are indeed on the system. Most likely the path to them was different on the system the binary was compiled on, or they weren't on that system at all and therefore the binary has no support for them. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] [Fwd: Re: [linuxham] Xastir]
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, roger g6ckr wrote: Warning: Name: create_appshell text_output Class: XmTextField Character '\41' not supported in font. Discarded. In the FAQ. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Objects
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: The big question is why do the gateway stations that show up on Xastir not have there own switch to show or not show? Or at least let us set them up with an tactical call, why was that disable in the first place? I'd have to look at Xastir in-memory database struct to be sure, but I don't think we keep track of who's an igate and who's not. As far as tactical calls, you should be able to assign those to any station. Objects and Items currently cannot have a tactical call. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Objects
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Suppose I want to create an object for all the local hospitals in our area for a SET we have this weekend. Is there a way to create a file, in advance, and just activate it when needed? Similar maybe to the way we can create a file for tactical calls? Hmmm. I've created them before just by clearing out or moving my ~/.xastir/config/object.log file, then creating them in Xastir or by hand (text editor). If you had display of objects turned off in Xastir, they wouldn't show until you wanted them to. Another way would be to create a normal log file containing simulated packets containing the object definitions. You could do that on-the-air by logging while you created the objects (with transmit turned on of course), then whittle the file down to just one entry per object of interest and save that log file away. Suck in the log file when you want the objects to appear. You can also combine the above methods (kind'a), by generating the first file, then adding packet headers to the beginning of each line like: WE7UAPRS: After that it's a normal log file instead of the special object.log format. Are you wanting to transmit these objects over RF when you activate them as well, or just display them locally? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Objects
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I would want them to be transmitted over RF. What would be the format if I wanted to use a text editor to set them up, with about 10 to do that would take much less time than one at a time inside of Xastir. Set up ONE in Xastir first, making sure that Compressed Objects is turned off (Configure-Defaults). Look at the format in ~/.xastir/config/object.log Copy that string to a text file and add WE7UAPRS: or similar to the beginning of the packet. For instance: From config.log file: ICP *073209h4806.63N/12145.56Wc Add header: WE7UAPRS:;ICP *073209h4806.63N/12145.56Wc The number of spaces is important. I don't recall off-hand whether Xastir will adopt them and start transmitting them if you suck them in from a log file. Worth a quick test. If not, you can add them to your object.log file by hand and kill/restart Xastir, or else Station-Configure-Reload Object/Item History. Again worth some tests to make sure it transmits. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OT: Processors and Linux version
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Rick Green wrote: My ubderstanding is that all of the 'core' series support 32-bit kernels, and the 'core-2' series also will support a 64-bit system. Some other 64-bit systems will too, like AMD. 'duo' refers to the number of cores on the die. Yep. And if you look at /proc/cpuinfo and see the lm flag your processor is capable of 64-bit. I already checked this P4 to see if it could. No lm flag. :-( I had to really hunt for that 32-bit/64-bit flag. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Re: [linuxham] OT: Processors and Linux version
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: The only problems I have encountered with 64 bit linux versions is the lack of 64 bit plugins like java. On my core 2 duo laptop, I didn't notice much speed difference between the 64 and 32 bit versions, so I just went with the 32. Really? It's reading/writing 8 bytes at a time instead of 4 to your memory. It should be faster. BTW: You can often use 32-bit versions of libraries alongside other 64-bit stuff. I try not to, but that option is available if you really need to run something. Oh, one problem I did have with the 64-bit system was the Java Hot-Spot compiler for 64-bit: I had to downgrade from 1.6.x to 1.5.x 'cuz the compiler kept crashing. It's a known bug and perhaps 1.7.x will fix it. It was the Sun Java 1.6.x package in OpenSuSE-11.0 for x86_64. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OT: Processors and Linux version
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Bob Nielsen wrote: Last week I installed 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 on a AMD X64 5000+ (2.6 GHz) machine and it seems to be running fine. However, when I ran '/proc/cpuinfo', it recognized that there were two cores but said the clock was only 1000 MHz. Has anyone else seen this sort of anomoly? The only similar thing I've seen: One of my kids is running an AMD Sempron 1.7GHz and it reports as a 1000MHz. All 32-bit stuff there, OpenSuSE-11.0. On the computer power-up screen is says Sempron 1.7GHz, so I think I got all the motherboard settings right. The system also appears slow compared to an AMD Athlon XP 1.2GHz, perhaps because it's a Sempron. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir Abend..
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Most (not all) of the times when I STOP an INTERFACE Xastir itself quits. Because I launch Xastir via my X11 windows environment on Mac OSX I don't know much about turning on the various logging capabilities of it. What would the launch look like in the Unix environment to turn on logging so I can investigate why this problem happens? Bring up an Xterm, inside that type: xastir -v 4095 which will turn on all of the debugging bits. You can also turn on debugging from inside Xastir but that won't help you if you don't start it from an Xterm to begin with. You can also do this: (xastir -v 4095 21) | tee run.log Which will then pipe all of STDERR and STDOUT into the file run.log, as well as dumping it to your screen. What kind of interface is causing this, USB? What version of Xastir? Anything in your system logs? For Linux a good place to look is /var/log/messages, don't know about Mac's but some system logs should probably be down under /var/adm/ or /var/log/ as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OT: Processors and Linux version
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Steve/WM5Z wrote: Since my desktop PC died the other day, I am wanting a new PC. The laptop is OK to get my mail and stuff, but not to good to use for everyday hamming computing. My question is, does the Intel duo processor still use the i686 version of Linux or will I need to get the 64 bit version? Finally one I can answer! I have a core 2 duo at work, with two 22 wide-screen LCD's (yea, I know, I'm spoiled there). I started out with OpenSuSE-11.0 32-bit on it, but switched it to 64-bit a couple of weeks ago. It feels about twice as fast now, and it was a fast machine to begin with. One downside is that the apps tend to use about twice as much memory as they used to, even Xastir, so make sure you have enough memory. I have 4GB on that machine and that seems to be enough for a lot of programs at once. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Correct command?
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Steve/WM5Z wrote: OK. I'll give it a try this evening. Thanks Alex. Make sure that if you use backslashes, there's nothing else on the end of each line. A backslash at the END of each line is the signal to the shell to continue the command on the next line. A possible gotcha' there. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] tiger maps queston
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Damon wrote: Also, It seems that if i have the tiger maps in the maps directory, they seem to autoload no matter if i choose them not. I know this is an obvious fix that my rain soaked head cant work with right now. Thanks. Do you Maps-Automaps enabled? If so, turn that off. Is it possible that you selected one of the directories containing all the tiger maps? That can also cause Xastir to try to load all of them. The good news is that Xastir keeps track of map extents for each map and will only try to load those that fit your view. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Re: problems getting the installed libraries to show up
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jim Tolbert wrote: I installed those (and perl-BerkleyDB) and ran ./configure from the xastir directory. There were no errors and the end summary (after running configure) indicated that I had support of pcre, dbfawk, and imagemajick. Running make generated no errors. I had to run make install in superuser mode and I had no errors. I started xastir and the maps looked the same ( without dbfawk support). Looking at helpabout pcre, dbfawk, and imagemajick are NOT listed. Since they were listed after running ./configure, what happened? Look at the compile date in Help-About. Does it match the time/date you just compiled it? Perhaps you have another Xastir binary installed elsewhere on your system and it's finding that one first. The normal default install location is /usr/local/bin/xastir. If you see a different location via one of these commands, that might be your problem. Did you install another Xastir earlier via RPM or some other method? which xastir whereis xastir Also: If you have two Xastir's on your system you may have trouble with your Xastir config files if you switch. It doesn't mix and match well when you move things around. The best solution in that case is to stop Xastir, move or blow away your ~/.xastir directory, then start Xastir and let it build a whole new directory and fill in defaults. You'll have to reconfigure everything then. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Server Port
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Ray Wells wrote: The first time I remotely connect to the server it works but if I disconnect and then reconnect the server is not available. Disabling and then enabling the server port makes it available again until the remote program disconnects. This problem seems to have just started with v1.9.3. Has anybody else noticed this? Yep. Fixed in CVS and in the latest one or three devel snapshots. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Something Weird
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else seen this oddity? When I open xastir, no problems. When i open a sub windows, the window will apear only as the top left corner. When I click it it only allowws me to move or always on top or close. If i close it, it closes the xastir. Then I open xastir again. This time it opens twice. Only one i can close ( this one works with same error). The second one works without errors, but wont accept any changes one you exit. Weird. Anyone seen anything like this. Using Ubuntu 8.04/Fresh Xastir CVS Install/Didn't do it before last night. Doesn't appear in any other programs that ive seen. What window manager? I'm not seeing it on OpenSuSE-11.0 with FVWM2 window manager. Do you have Desktop effects enabled on your desktop? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] New devel snapshot out, usual place
-- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] RE: Xastir Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Damon Baldini wrote: Little hint on the sounds that I found. I have festival installed, but you have to start it from the prompt before you start xastir. I have it in file so I think its ./festival -server w/o quotes. Someone can correct me. Then you open xastir and enable sound and it should work then. I found this problem too when I installed 8.04 but it's a real easy fix. The various README and INSTALL documents that come with Xastir talk about this stuff. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] RE: Xastir Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, AC7YY - Kim wrote: I too got festival installed and working on ubuntu 8.04. I start the server with this command: festival --server It it possible to use different voices? If so, how? Yes it's possible. I tried many years ago to do it and failed the first time, then got busy on other parts of the project. Perhaps others have had better luck. Perhaps it's an easy thing to do now as I'm sure the Festival project has progressed as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Anybody a soundmodem expert
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Robert Rogers wrote: I'm trying to configure soundmodem... I've not found any good instructions on how to set it up If it's off topic please email me direct and we can keep it off the list Define expert. I've had it running in AX.25 driver mode and in KISS Modem mode, both in receive-only configurations. I've not done the transmit side with it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Running Xastir as Root under Ubuntu 8.04 How to Run as Standard User
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Bob Nielsen wrote: You should be able to do it just like with any other Linux distro: sudo mv /root/.xastir /home/newuser sudo chown -R newuser.newuser /home/newuser/.xastir Not necessary. If his files are getting generated in /root then he's starting Xastir from a root shell. He needs to run as a non-root user, then Xastir will create everything from scratch in /home/newuser/.xastir/ Of course if he wants to save what he's already configured, then Bob's instructions can be put to good use. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Anyone in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro that could get together with me is week?
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Jim Tolbert wrote: I am going to be in the Minneapolis / St. Paul metro area on Thursday and Friday (10/9 10) . I will have my days free and I am having trouble with my setup. Can you specify which of the three systems (Xastir/T2-135, Rtrak, or OT1+) you're having trouble with and what specific sort of trouble? That info might help someone to come forward who could help you in that region of the country. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] New devel snapshot out
Go get it. It's the first devel snapshot I did entirely on x86_64. Since it's just sources it should be fine. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Off Topic - qsstv
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Norm VK3XCI wrote: qsstv ver 5.3c kubuntu 8.04 I can't get the damned thing to sync! The sync pulse appears very attenuated compared to MMSSTV on that other operating system. I don't want to have to go back there, but I have a commitment to have it running this weekend Try posting to the Linux-Hams list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This URL has subscribe info for the above list: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html It looks like the author of qsstv asks for any questions as well, so that's another good avenue: http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/ I haven't run qsstv so can't help you directly. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Trouble compiling cvs
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Kirk Mefford wrote: Failed to mention... this in on a Debian install. I managed to get configure to see all the additional packages but now it won't compile... gr main.c:22174: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘XmStringUnparse’ Sounds like the Motif (or Lesstif) headers are not being found. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] remote use from a windows computer
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Harold Hartley wrote: I'm just wondering if I ran xastir on my linux box, can I connect to my linux box with my windows laptop over wireless network and see the graphics on my laptop like I would if I was sitting in front of my linux box. I'm curious about this as my linux box is not within my reach when I'm in bed, but I use my winXP laptop when in bed and want to do my xastir over it. Please let me know if this is possible.. Yes. You can run it on the Linux box with the display on the Windows box via a variety of methods. Probably the easiest is with VNC. Another way would be to run XMing on the Windows box, connect over to the Linux box and start up Xastir. In this case though if you shut down the display then Xastir shuts down. With VNC you can connect over to the Linux box at any time and see a live display of what's over there. You can do the same Windows-Windows, Windows-Linux, Linux-Windows, etc. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Festival timeout
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: I haven't really played with festival much, but I installed it when I built from CVS last night. I was experiencing a fairly long wait before getting an error message that the connection to the server had timed out. However, when I start the festival server, I still get the timeout. Any suggestions? I'm getting no such delay from CVS, whether Festival server is running or not. Could it be that it's indexing maps or the FCC/RAC files? Hmmm... Just checked the code and it does that afterwards. Try starting it with xastir -v 4095 and see what it says right before it delays. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Festival timeout
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ serverSun Sep 28 08:39:02 2008 : Festival server started on port 1314 festival_client: connect to server failed SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival Something isn't right in your Festival setup if you're not able to connect. You should be able to: telnet localhost 1314 and then type: (SayText Hello) To test it w/o Xastir (with the parenthesis). See the FAQ for a couple of problems/fixes. Do you have a firewall running that would prevent a connect to that port on the local machine? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir-dev] Renaming testawk and adding it to programs installed.
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Tom Russo wrote: So I propose: 1) Change testawk's name to testdbfawk 2) Add testdbfawk to the list of programs built and installed by a source build. Anyone have an objection? None. Sounds great to me. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
Re: [Xastir] Re: Easy Xastir install on OpenSuSE-11.0 32-bit x86
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Hiroshi Iwamoto wrote: I confirmed that binary does not support Dbfawk. At next upgrade time, I will check Libraries used: line! I thought it did support dbfawk but I can't test that right now (I need a fresh VMWare instance of SuSE and a bit of free time to do it). Did you see the postings by Tom just now about dbfawk and PCRE? You might try installing pcre just to see if it'll come up enabled. The one-click install should have installed the max version of Xastir RPM, which has pretty much everything enabled. That's what it did when I tested it on a vanilla SuSE-11.0 install running inside VMWare. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Problem with Xastir Server Ports
1.9.2 OK (w/error output when client disconnects) 1.9.3-2008-Jun-09 OK (w/error output when client disconnects) 1.9.3-2008-Jul-07 Problem 1.9.4 Problem 1.9.5 Problem I see this on the xterm I started the server from w/1.9.3-2008-Jun-09, but it continues to run ok. Might be a good clue: *** glibc detected *** xastir: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08361900 *** That above text happens when you disconnect the client. When you try to reconnect on 1.9.3-2008-Jul-07 or later, you can't, unless you disable/reenable the server ports again. Looks like the problem started between June 9th and July 7th. All right, there were changes made to src/x_spider.c on June 11th, and one or more of these contributed to the problem. If I revert the file to a pre-June 11th state the problem disappears. There were nine lines added to the file. One or more of them is the culprit. The p = NULL; at x_spider.c line 544 is the culprit. Comment that line out and the server ports seem to be as solid as they ever were. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
RE: [Xastir] Digipeating question.
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Rob Compton wrote: I'll assume then (wrongly probably!), that in that line I can have: RELAY_DIGIPEAT_CALLS:WIDE2-2,WIDE2-1,WIDE1-1,RELAY,etc I expect you _could_ have all that, but we may not do the proper decrementing for WIDE2-2. The others you list are all RELAY-type callsigns, so it should just substitute it's own callsign in there and you're done with that slot. I have considered running the AX25 kernel modules, and doing that way, in fact, dropping the KISS TNC and using a SCC card like a DRSI, or PAC-COMM PC120 (which I have a few of). Why get rid of the KISS TNC? It'll work with the AX.25 driver just fine. Also a computer soundcard with soundmodem driver works although there's more messing with sound levels and with interfacing. You can also configure soundmodem to present to the system as a KISS TNC, so you can then talk to it with Xastir's Serial KISS TNC interface. All kinds of options. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Grid Squares
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I put all the grid maps into a file call grids, and that I put that into another file call Big Grids, put when I go to launch Xastir it loads all of them every time. And when I pull up the map chooser all of them get indexed, it takes ages to find just the files I want, to launch Xastir or change maps. Turn off: Map-Automaps Map-Configure-Index new maps on startup -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Avast, there be Pirates!
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Dave H wrote: I think it's only the voice output at the station end, for fun Nope. Just menus, no voice (although that _could_ be done). I expect its something you turn-on rather than have to turn off. Correct. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Avast, there be Pirates!
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Nick Kartsioukas wrote: I believe that was a Pirates of the Caribbean reference, in which the Pirate's Code is described as more like guidelines. :) Ah. I'm a little slow sometimes, particularly before I've had my caffeine. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Avast, there be Pirates!
I'm sorry I probably won't be around on the mailing lists for TLAPD (Talk Like A Pirate Day), which is September 19th every year, but at least Xastir is ready for it this year. Upgrade to the latest devel snapshot or CVS and do xastir -h or xastir -? and you'll see. FWIW: The Perl scripts will translate STDIN to STDOUT if you run them stand-alone as well... As a demonstration I ran this e-mail through and have attached the translation to the end. I expect to be in the woods with my pointy sticks. I guess that's almost Pirate-ey. Have fun! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! --- I'm sorry I likely won't be 'round on th' mailin' lists fer TLAPD (Talk Like A Pirate Day), which be September 19th every year, but at least HMS Xastir be ready fer it this year. Upgrade t' th' latest devel etchin' or CVS an' do HMS xastir -h or HMS xastir -? an' ye'll see. FWIW: The Perl scripts will translate STDIN t' STDOUT if ye run them stand-alone as well... As a demonstratin' I ran this e-mail through an' have attached th' translatin' t' th' end. I expect t' be 'n th' woods with me pointy sticks. I guess that's almost Pirate-ey. Have fun! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on scallywags who be scurvy at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve 'round me: I picked th' coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Easy Xastir install on OpenSuSE-11.0 32-bit x86
A one-click Xastir binary install is available for OpenSuSE-11.0 32-bit x86 systems. It's been tested on a fresh install of OpenSuSE-11.0 and is about the easiest install one could hope for. It installs the latest development release of Xastir 1.9.5 and all necessary libraries. If you find a feature that doesn't work because of a missing library or executable, let me know and I'll update it. One-click really means about 13 or 14 clicks by the time you're done, but it's still a very nice/quick install. When done you'll be subscribed to the Ham Repository for SuSE-11.0 so you can run YaST Package Manager to install more ham apps if you wish. It takes you through an upgrade of OpenMotif as the first step to take care of the no-labels-on-sliders problem. Please check out the Wiki page at: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:OpenSUSE_11.0 Let me know how it works for you. I hope to have some results for OSX and for SuSE 64-bit x86 installs in the near future. Windows/OSX people have the VMWare Player Ubuntu Linux/Xastir images to use. For OSX we can do better (native install). I was handed an x86 64-bit system yesterday for temporary testing so I have no excuses now for OpenSuSE-11.0 64-bit. (Thanks a lot Bob! [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OpenSuSE-11.0 Test of One-Click Install
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Kevin J. Hogan wrote: It didn't work for me. I am running the 64 bit SuSE. It just stopped, at the Downloading MozillaFirefox. 64-bit won't work. I don't run 64-bit SuSE, so haven't made any binaries for that. I have managed to do the one-click install and include Xastir RPM's now. Next step is to (perhaps) figure out how to do the same for OpenMotif RPM's and the other SuSE RPM's that Xastir depends on. It's interesting that FireFox was listed... That's coming from somewhere else and has nothing directly to do with what I'm doing. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OT: gif image analysis
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote: Is there any program anyone knows of that would report the color of a given pixel as text output? I could pipe the output of a batch to a text file and then parse it for the color I'm looking for. For example, if the pixel color at X,Y is black, I'm fine, if it's cyan, I need to look at that image. How about something like ImageMagick's stream program? It has an -extract geometry function you might be able to use to snag just the pixel(s) of interest. GM has the -crop flag to crop the image down to just the pixel(s) of interest . Depending on whether all of your images you're processing use the same colordepth and file representation, you may then be able to use a simple script or program to check for the color yourself. If they have varying formats/color depths, then it gets more complicated to extract the color. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OT: gif image analysis
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: not sure if ImageMagick is available on windoze, but my knee-jerk reaction is to convert it to something readable/easily parseable (XPM? raw RGB?), or maybe crop the image to that single pixel then compare the whole resulting file with a known target. Ah yes, XPM would be nice 'cuz it's then easily processed with a Perl script. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Wiki Changes
In case anyone cares, I moved the system-specific links from HowTos to Installation Notes. I thought it was stupid to have to look two places for specific OS information. Whether we should just combine the two pages might be the next question but I couldn't decide on that one. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Feature Request
The label on the button is proper now plus the tracked station callsign is saved in the config file and restored on startup. The tracking state is still _not_ saved, so the only way to come up tracking on start is to use the command-line flag. You can however easily go to the Station-Track Station dialog and hit the Track Now! button without typing the callsign if you always track just one station. For other stations right-click on the station, click Station Info, select the station (if there were several under the cursor), then click Track Station. No typing required. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Compiling 1.9.5
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: troubleshoot another user's issue back in July. On the desktop there was a text file I had saved called Xfontsel.txt. In the file, I found virtually the same text as above. Mandriva 2008.1 has a separate binary package simply named xfontsel, which what I installed via the package manager to solve it, so hopefully Mandriva 2006 has the same. Latest CVS works around the problem, so that's another way to solve it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Inter-program communication feature request
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Jim Tolbert wrote: For SAR use, there is a spreadsheet application that calculates probability of success of a search in a particular search sector. In Xastir, we can identify the search sectors with the closed polygon which will calculate the area. Is there a way to have Xastir and the OpenOffice Calc / Excel application exchange the search sector areas and the current Probability of Success for visual presentation? That is, the operator would set up the search sector in Xastir using predefined sector names. Xastir would calculate the area of the sector and write those area values to the proper field in the spreadsheet. The operator would then perform the calculations in the spreadsheet and update the POS for that sector. The spreadsheet would then send the updated POS values to the note field of the sector for display in Xastir. A step further would be to shade the sector based on the current POS. I know _exactly_ what you're talking about, although there are several ways of doing the calculations via various spreadsheets or via stand-alone programs. Tom knows the methods you're talking about to calculate POS/POD also. If you look at the Feature Request tracker for the Xastir project you'll see that the segments were intended to be a step in that direction, and that there are other feature requests along those lines as well. Do a search through the requests using the string SAR. Now that you'll know some of the direction were headed back then, let's talk about the direction we're headed now: Xastir-NG (Xastir Next Generation). On the sourceforge.net/projects/xastir set of pages is a Wiki. We're using that Wiki and the Xastir-Dev mailing list to discuss the Xastir-NG project. Anyone with requirements or ideas for directions we should go should add to the Use Cases on that Wiki and get subscribed to the -Dev mailing list to make your needs known to the developers. We really need to get that project rolling as we've been talking about it for way too long with little action. I'd rather put fresh energy into the new project than keep patching up the old, although at times that can be a nice diversion as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] OpenSuSE-11.0 Test of One-Click Install
Anyone running OpenSuSE-11.0 that can try something for me? Click on this in your web browser: ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/a/archer/aprs/xastir/SUSE-RPM/SuSE-11.0/xastir.ymp The link will install most of the supporting libs from the SuSE-11.0 ham repository which Xastir needs. It will also auto-subscribe you to the SuSE-11.0 ham repository and leave you subscribed afterwards so you can find more ham stuff if you wish. It shouldn't be hard to modify it to install more packages Xastir needs from the main SuSE repositories as well. Let me know how it works for you. Come up with a list of additional packages needed (and repositories they reside in) and send it my way: I'll add the data to the file to make it easier for the next person to come along. If I can figure out a bit more I may try to get OpenMotif-2.3.1 and some of the Xastir RPM's set up this way too, but I need to set up my own repository for that and I don't yet know how to create the stuff in the repodata directory. I've already modified the structure in SUSE-RPM/SuSE-11.0/ to correspond with the standard repository structure. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Compiling 1.9.5
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, KZ5ED wrote: OS is Mandriva 2006 Trying to compile 1.9.5 from source. Run Make and get this can someone tell me where to start looking to fix this problem. main.c: In function 'Map_font_xfontsel': main.c:4590: error: 'XFONTSEL_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function) That's my fault. I added some checks for xfontsel to configure.ac or acinclude.m4 (the autoconf stuff) because Xastir uses that binary and I wanted it to find the path during the configure step. What I _should_ have done (and hopefully will get to soon) was also add checks in the C-code to disable use of XFONTSEL_PATH when HAVE_XFONTSEL is not defined. To fix it in your case, install a package which gives you the xfontsel binary. I ran this command on OpenSUSE-11.0 to find which package installed it: rpm -q -f /usr/bin/xfontsel Which returned: xorg-x11-7.3-96.2 So... Look in your XFree or Xorg packages to see which provides xfontsel and install it, then re-run ./configure. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Topo on line maps?
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, AC7YY - Kim wrote: I got this error when I switched to Online/terraserver--topo.geo the map loaded and crashed after a few seconds xastir: xcb_out.c:287: _xcb_out_flush_to: Assertion `((int) ((request) - (c-out.request)) = 0)' failed. Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xastir: xcb_out.c:287: _xcb_out_flush_to: Assertion `((int) ((request) - (c-out.request)) = 0)' failed. Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Have I compiled something incorrectly? Ubuntu 8.04 xastir v 1.9.5 here I really don't know. The stuff above looks like C++ code, and I don't know what xcb is, so I suspect this is one of the libraries which is written in C++. I found this in a Google search: http://lwn.net/Articles/273724/ Which talks about XLib and XCB and has some of the above strings in the article. So... It looks like they changed X11 a bit (XLib is one of the layers of X11). Have you tried updating your box to the latest OS patches? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] dbfawk, overlapping lines, and more
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Alex Carver wrote: Third, is there a way to kick Xastir and force it to reindex the maps and refresh the screen non-interactively? If I get this working, a cron is going to download the track, drop it in the maps directory and it should be able to signal Xastir to reindex the maps and refresh the display so that the track is updated. About the best I can think of right now is to update the timestamp on the map files you want reindexed, then send the signal to Xastir which causes it to shut down and restart. I think that should cause it to reindex the maps, but test this procedure to make sure. SIGHUP causes a restart. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] How to...
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Thanks David and Kevin, I do wish I could track multiple and zoom to fit and have used the tactical call method suggested by Kevin. Unfortunately that really doesn't work for a bike ride but thank you anyway, and I sure hope the guys are having a great time in Washington. Yep we did! The tactical callsign thing works great for special events. For tracking individual stations the best I can suggest is to set up one Xastir as the master station, with the Server Ports enabled (Interface menu). You can track one station on that and zoom to taste, or keep that one as the overall view map. Start up another Xastir using the -c /path/dir flag on the command-line, and connect it to the master instance (localhost port 2023). Set that one up to track a station. Repeat (with a different path for each running instance). You'll have to configure each of those new Xastir sessions as they'll be starting with a clean default config file the first time you run them. I did this sort of thing for the Seattle Marathon plus set up a script to start up the various Xastir sessions in the right directories and such. That way if I lost power or anything went wrong, I could easily/quickly get back to the same configuration. xastir xastir -c /home/archer/.xastir2 xastir -c /home/archer/.xastir3 etc. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Feature Request
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote: I posted this earlier, but didn't see it go by or hear any response. I haven't had a chance to get to all of the e-mail from the last week or so. Perhaps none of the other developers had an interest in this topic. I would like to see where xastir station/track station remembers the last station entered here. It would be really cool if it could remember a limited list where a check mark or box would re-initiate this function. I typically find myself tracking one of four or five stations repeatedly. It would be great if I didn't have to retype these calls over and over each time, and with my clumsy fingers... well, you get the idea? Combining your questions from the two e-mails: Sure, we could make the currently tracked station sticky, as in save it to the config file when we shut down and restore it on startup. Better yet would be to save it when the callsign is entered as that protects better against power going away during an event. Right now most things don't save until you manually save or you shut down Xastir. Sticky tracking might cause surprises for the operator if he forgot he was tracking though, that's often the case for me. As far as the list, that's a bit more code. What about this instead: A button on the Station Info window for enabling tracking of that station? I've been wanting to do that for some time and that would make it easier to track stations if they'd been heard recently. If not then one could type in the callsign. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] How to...
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, k4xtt wrote: Curt, this is interesting. What are all the command line options or where can I see them? xastir -h or xastir -? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu, Kenwood, Xastir et al...
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Jim Morgan wrote: I still have not found the answer to my serial port issues with this system and I have a SET drill coming up on 4th October and I am seriously considering going back to the evil empire and loading Win98 back on this box with UiView and then the thought hit me... How do we use Xastir with the sound card? That route may be rife with yet other difficulties. By the way when I used the Knoppix disc with all the ham radio proggies on it I had no problems setting up and using Xastir... except no maps unless I was online. So the problem is with Fluxbuntu not hardware or Xastir. Which is good for me because I prefer Xastir. If you'd use a Linux distribution I was more familiar with I could probably help you. Probably the same for others but they probably have different distributions in mind. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Feature Request
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote: Anyway I kind of like your way as then I wouldn't have to pull down a menu and then select a box. Just right-click on the station, if I understand what you are saying, and make the selection. Way cool. Almost. You'd right-click. If there were multiple stations near the mouse you'd get a selection box, else the Station Info window. If the selection box then select the callsign and then the Station Info window would pop up. Once there you'd have a button there for Track This Station or some-such. Did you know about the -f callsign (Track callsign) command-line option? You could do it that way as well: xastir -f we7u-12 Define different aliases or scripts for tracking certain people. I'm still thinking about the minimum surprise to users angle: Should we or should we not make tracking of a particular station remembered through restarts of Xastir? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Feature Request
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote: xastir -f we7u-12 No, I didn't, but then that would require a restart, if I am thinking correctly how that would work. Yep. Well, to regress back to what I originally thought, if there was a remembered list that would persist through restarts of the program, then one would only have to click on the station that was previously entered in the list. If a new station was going to be added to the list, then one would add it to a blank field. If you wanted to re-use a call, then you would just recheck that station. I fully understand, and that would be lovely, but it's more work than I want to do right now. I see how your way would work too. Here in NM when I zoom in what would be a search area or a bike-a-thon etc, I don't see that it is going to be very cluttered, unless you are talking about everyone in the staging area, and even then... Now if you are talking about covering a whole county, things can get crowded in the metro's but not unreasonably. So, you method should be very useful. Probably would work even better than mine. Xastir will give you a Chooser box before it goes to Station Info if there's more than one station within XX pixels of where you right-click with the mouse, then you click on the callsign you want and it goes to Station Info. From there you can click on the new Track Station button which isn't labeled properly yet. It's in CVS now. Might not be in anonCVS for a few minutes. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Any MacPorts and/or Fink experts out there?
There appeared to be a bit of interest among Windows and OSX users at the NWAPRS Summer Gathering this weekend. VMWare Appliances were the way most of those installs got accomplished. I tried to help with source installs on OSX using MacPorts, but ran into a lot of trouble. I believe Xastir's configure was set up earlier to handle Fink packages (/sw directory), but not MacPorts (/opt/local directory). This looks to be the proper setup for Fink: http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-general.php?phpLang=en#compile-myself Which says: --- export CFLAGS=-I/sw/include export LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS export CPPFLAGS=$CXXFLAGS export ACLOCAL_FLAGS=-I /sw/share/aclocal export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/pkgconfig export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 (assuming that the build system is running OS 10.4 or later) It is often easiest just to add these to your startup files (e.g. .cshrc | .profile) so they are set automatically. If a package does not use these variables, you may need to add the -I/sw/include (for headers) and -L/sw/lib (for libraries) to the compile lines yourself. Some packages may use similar non-standard variables such as EXTRA_CFLAGS or --with-qt-dir= configure options. ./configure --help will usually give you a list of the extra configure options. --- I can't find an equivalent set of instructions for MacPorts. Here's the kind of stuff I started to work on which didn't work for several of the libraries: ./configure --with-motif-libs=/usr/openmotif/lib --with-motif-includes=/usr/openmotif/include/Xm --includedir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/libgeotiff/1.2.1_0/opt/local/include --includedir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/proj/4.6.0_0/opt/local/include --with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/include/db46 --libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/libgeotiff/1.2.1_0/opt/local/lib --libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/proj/4.6.0_0/opt/local/lib --with-bdb-libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/lib/db46 I wasn't real happy that most of the libraries installed via MacPorts were that many levels down _and_ had version numbers in the directory names. How are other pieces of software supposed to be able to find them? Perhaps they also got installed into /opt/local/lib/ and /opt/local/include/ and I was just spinning my wheels trying to enumerate all of the above directories? Perhaps the MacPorts packages for the libraries we installed were done incorrectly? As I recall these flags worked for us: --with-motif-libs=/usr/openmotif/lib --with-motif-includes=/usr/openmotif/include/Xm --with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/include/db46 --with-bdb-libdir=/opt/local/var/macports/software/db46/4.6.21_1/opt/local/lib/db46 ./configure -h shows flags to specify the paths for X, Motif, and Berkeley DB (BDB), but not for any of the other libraries. Here's what I'd _like_ to have happen: *) Fink installs go into /sw/lib and /sw/include and not further below! *) MacPorts installs go into /opt/local/lib and /opt/local/include and not further below! *) Xastir's autoconf gets modified to handle the first two above. *) Xastir's autoconf gets modified to add path flags for the other libraries (and perhaps executables that we use). With a small amount of work by us the OSX people could also have an easy source install of Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] geo files for simple maps
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Alex Carver wrote: It's just a simple .geo like the others you've seen. First line is the keyword FILENAME and then the filename of the image Next line is keyword TIEPOINT followed by the pixel x, pixel y, longitude, and latitude of the pixel Final line is another TIEPOINT for the opposite corner in the same format. Explained a bit in README.MAPS and a bit more extensively in the online help in Xastir itself. Note that the tiepoints do not have to be at the corners, but you get a bit more accuracy if they're as close as possible. Pick two spots on the map that you know the lat/long of, which are separated both vertically and horizontally at much as possible. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Mac Xastir - wget woes
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Bob Nielsen wrote: Apparently xastir won't look for wget if curl is installed. If curl and curl-devel are installed and functional, then yes, it probably skips looking for wget. Similar functionality for GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick: Xastir will prefer GM if graphicsmagick and graphicsmagick-devel are installed. If it can't find the development headers for a library, it isn't able to compile in support for that library. As to wget: Configure only has to find the executable and not any development headers. Perhaps on the Mac it is installed in a non-standard place where configure doesn't look for it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Mac Xastir - wget woes
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote: Just for the heck of it, I recompiled, (found curl components, said it'd do map downloads with libcurl), and it now loads the tigermaps. Mongo not understand. It might have had to do with when you installed libraries versus when you re-ran ./configure. Or perhaps something ran ldconfig which updated your list of libraries. Now I et tigermap timeouts when I try to go for the US map. That I can live with. Try zooming in and also changing your timeout for internet map fetches in File-Configure-Timing. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] new problem.... tigermaps above Zoom=512
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote: Tigermaps above a certain level are coming back blank, or not at all, actually. They aren't timing out as far as I can tell. At my home in Austin, TX: map.gif is OK at ZL 790. map.gif does not exist when at ZL 790. Move to S. Florida: map.gif is OK at 512, does not exist when above that. It doesn't seem to be timing out, and the command prompt window shows no errors. It's probably the Tiger server that is messing up, but that zoom level seems a bit high for that server anyway. If I recall correctly they use a sine projection (really weird) for speed, and the distortion you see away from the middle of the map gets worse as you zoom out. An easy way to check whether it's the server doing it to you: Look in your ~/.xastir/tmp directory for map.* files. The latest one is probably the one that you just downloaded from Tiger. Look at it using gm display FILENAME (GM) or display FILENAME (IM). See if it's also black. While we're at it, I'm not sure I've mentioned this to a wide-enough audience yet: The Terraserver images don't get georeferenced properly if your map window is too wide. I have a couple of 22 wide-screen LCD's at work (Yea I know, I wish I had a setup like that at home too!). If I stretch Xastir too wide on just one of the screens then the terraserver maps aren't georeferenced properly. I _think_ this has to do with the terraserver images returned being smaller than requested, but haven't fully looked into the problem. I made the Xastir screen narrower and called it good. We could mostly solve the problems described above plus give ourselves a lot more functionality by requesting map tiles and caching those, plus drawing them as they came in. That'll probably have to wait for Xastir-NG... -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Hurricane Watch
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I'm looking at Hanna and Ike on Xastir, but each has a number of circles, red, green, yellow around them. Would someone in the know please give me (and the rest of us land lubbers) the skinny on this, tell us how all this happens. Those are the three different wind speeds that are reported for each Tropical depression/tropical storm/hurricane. The rings show wx_whole_gale_radius, wx_trop_storm_radius, and wx_hurricane_radius (Xastir's variable names for them). If you see all three circles the smallest one shows the radius of hurricane-force winds, the next larger is the radius of tropical storm winds. If the storm/hurricane doesn't get up to the max speed you may only see two rings. Same for one ring if it doesn't make it to the second scale. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Hurricane Watch
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote: If the storm/hurricane doesn't get up to the max speed you may only see two rings. Same for one ring if it doesn't make it to the second scale. What do you turn on to see these? I have the NWSRadar.geo on. Am I missing a file? Firenet w/objects and items coming through your filter. Turn on Station- Filter Data- Objects/Items WX Objects/Items -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Hurricane Watch
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote: I have all of these under Station set ok. But Firenet won't start. What is the right port? I have 14580 in there now. And, is it firenet.net? firenet.us port 14580. Or port 2023 for the full feed. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] NWAPRS Summer Gathering - This Weekend!
In case any of you are traveling through the area or live close enough to attend, the regional NWAPRS Summer Gathering is happening this weekend near North Bend, WA, which is along I-90 a bit east of Seattle. Here's further info: http://nwaprs.info/eventslist.htm I hope to see some of you there! I plan to be there friday night (movie night) through sunday noon or so. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Wiki needed page: Install guide for Eee PC
For those of you who've done an Xastir install onto a Linux Eee PC: Can one of you create a Wiki page under www.xastir.org - Documentation - Installation Note for it? If you don't have Wiki access, request it and/or send me the info and I'll create the page. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir Devel Release
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote: :-) I just installed the latest (1.9.5) of xastir, and the first thing I see different is it now has Igate Logging. What does this do? In fact, there is a bunch of logging options. Is there an explanation somewhere of what these are used for? Any of the logging functions are intended to keep track of those types of info in ~/.xastir/logs/ directory, and roll them over when they get to a certain size. You can look in that directory after turning on the options to see what they've collected. Thanks guys for making a great program even better. Keep up the good work, but be sure to have some fun along the way!!! (That goes for you Curt, and you too, Gerry) ;-) Do you mean like this? -l Dutch Set the language to Dutch -l English Set the language to English -l French Set the language to French -l German Set the language to German -l Italian Set the language to Italian -l Portuguese Set the language to Portuguese -l Spanish Set the language to Spanish -l ElmerFudd Set the language to ElmerFudd -l MuppetsChef Set the language to MuppetsChef -l OldeEnglish Set the language to OldeEnglish -l PigLatinSet the language to PigLatin -l PirateEnglish Set the language to PirateEnglish For what it's worth: Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19th every year. This year we're ready... -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] First Install in OS X
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote: Keith Kaiser wrote: So I've been told. I loaded both LessTif and the older version of OpenMotif but because I don't know how to get rid of the older version of OpenMotif, how to delete it completely in other words, I've not been able to make Xastir use the newer version. I think you do it like this; ./configure --without-motif --with-lesstif This works for packages where they install using different filenames or into different directories, but in the case of OpenMotif/Lesstif: They install into the same areas using the same filenames. One is a direct replacement for the other. In my opinion OpenMotif is the better package, but only if it's easy for you to upgrade/downgrade it to a version that doesn't have the bug. 2.3.0 has the particular bug. Earlier/later versions do not. I'm running 2.3.1 here and it's working fine (OpenSUSE-11.0 Linux). Lesstif exhibits other bugs, usually much less visible ones. Lesstif is an open-source replacement for OpenMotif and does a good job but isn't quite as polished as Motif. So: If you can easily upgrade/downgrade Motif, try that. If not, try getting rid of it and installing Lesstif. You'll need both the libraries and the development headers for the same version. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] First Install in OS X
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I guess I'm going to have to wait for Apple to update OpenMotif internally because no matter what I do, Xastir compiles with v2.3.0. I downloaded v2.3.1 of OpenMotif, compiled and installed it. Then I did the ./configure for Xastir using a --with-openmotif-2.3.1 and it still came up with version 2.3.0. You can run ./configure -h to see what the options to configure are. ./configure -h | less if you want to be able to scroll up/down while looking at it. The option you added is not allowed. Installing a newer OpenMotif on your system (outside your normal package management system) probably caused it to install in a new location. At that point you've got both the old and the new installed, and Xastir compiles will most likely find the old one. The options to configure that you might need to fix this are: --with-motif-includes Set path for motif includes (default none) --with-motif-libs Set path for motif libraries (default none) If you know where the new OpenMotif got installed you can try: ./configure --with-motif-includes PATH1 --with-motif-libs PATH2 Since I don't run Mac's I can't help you with more specific info. A typical install location for downloaded Unix/Linux software is the /usr/local/ area, so perhaps something like this: ./configure --with-motif-includes /usr/local/include/Xm --with-motif-libs /usr/local/lib A guess based on looking at where things are installed on my Linux box and translating a bit. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] T2-135 KISS scripts
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Bruce W. Martin wrote: I have a fairly old version of xastir working on a G4 iBook. I am not inclined to try to update xastir since it is working just fine. I want to hook up a DR-135 with a T2-135 board installed. Are there current scripts available so that xastir will put the T2 into KISS mode when connecting and take it out of KISS mode when disconnecting? No. or is there an established procedure otherwise? I don't recall whether the Tracker2 will accept TAPR2 commands. If not, then you'd have to do it externally from Xastir with scripts. Just curious though: Why take the T2 in/out of KISS mode at all? When in KISS mode it can still do it's tracking functions, digipeating functions, and KISS mode all at the same time. You're not losing any functionality by leaving that port in KISS mode. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't MAKE
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Murry wrote: When I type MAKE a few things go by on the screen but at the end it has 2 errors as near as I can tell. Didn't try a Make Install as I didn't believe this was right. If you can post the errors to the list we can probably help. If they are warnings instead of errors you may still be ok. Check for xastir executable in your xastir/src/ directory. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't MAKE
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Murry wrote: At the end of MAKE, there are 59 linesthat look like this. map_tif.c xxx: error The three x's before error are numbers, and the x's after error appear to be an explanation of the error. Try: ./configure --without-geotiff make That will get you around the tiff/geotiff issue but disallow use of geotiff maps. If you're not currently using USGS DOQQ or DRG images, it's not a big deal. Perhaps someone more familiar with Ubuntu can help you get that going too if you need it, or check out the Xastir Documentation link off www.xastir.org, then go to the HowTo's or Installation Notes links for specific Ubuntu information. ./configure -help | less will show you all the possible options for configure. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Jim Morgan wrote: So I have gone back and changed the permissions in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules so that the permissions problem will be solved. I will try again, with great caution and fear this time, to see if adding the /dev/ttyS0 to the /etc/udev/rules.d20-names file will get Xastir to talking to the Kenwood through the serial port. I still need to dl GTKTerm and/or Minicom again. As a reminder I have nothing serial except for the radio. So am I forgetting something else that we have tried? And does anyone know if I really need to name the serial port in the names file? The port is not named in the same file on my working Ubuntu computer. And if I do need to write the port into the 20-names.rules file what do I need to tell it to do and does this tie in somehow with the symlink rules? I'm using OpenSuSE-11.0 rather than Ubuntu, using one USB-Serial adapter on the home box at present, plus a USB TV capture device and a USB joystick, maybe a USB mouse too. I haven't had to name anything, but I did have to go mess with the permissions in /etc/udev/rules.d/ so that I could use my joystick in BZFlag. Got'a have my BZFlag! Have you looked through the Ubuntu-specific info in these two spots? http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo's http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Notes Anyone else running Ubuntu that can help Jim? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't MAKE
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Tom Russo wrote: But as a general rule, the more specific information you provide, the better the quality of the help you'll receive. I'd add to that: If the thread has gone on for more than two days, summarize the details concisely and repost. Some of us get hundreds of e-mails per day and can't remember earlier portions of threads: They drop off the end of short-term memory. Unfortunately my queue seems to be getting shorter each year too! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir queues packets when idle
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Patrick Domack wrote: I am having the strangest thing going on since I upgraded to 1.9.4, atleast I never noticed it in 1.9.3 (didn't run 1.9.2 for long) If I haven't moved the mouse for a few hours, xastir screen won't update, people won't move, nothing happens. As soon as I move the mouse, the callsigns at the bottom left go completely nuts as it scrolls through thousands of packets, and the All-Message-Traffic window will just scroll messages quickly. I fail to believe this is an X setting, as I have turned off all screen saver type features long ago. I am also running a satellite tracking program, and it updates fine. It seems to happen after 3 or so hours, not sure exactly how long though. 1.9.4 is a re-branded 1.9.3. That's what we do when we think the sources have been reasonably stable and it's been a while since the last release. Since you were running 1.9.3 you were either running CVS or one of the development snapshots. If CVS then it might be hard to pin down exactly which code you were running. If a devel snapshot you may still have it around and can switch back to it in order to test. If possible, switch back to the version you were running before and give it a test under the exact same conditions to see if it does it as well. I haven't seen such operation, but my conditions may be drastically different than yours. I'm in a hot APRS area and have a TNC on the air, plus a filtered feed off Firenet up and running. Have you changed OS, OS version, or Window Manager lately? Window manager settings? What OS and version are you running, and what window manager? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Wiki Item needed - or am I blind?
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, David Aitcheson wrote: Ok, here is the results of my uninstall evolution interwoven below... On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:46 AM, David Aitcheson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Tom Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you installed from source, go into the directory where you built the code and type sudo make uninstall. If you don't have that directory anymore, then pull down a new copy, configure it and sudo make uninstall. That should do it. After some pondering I chose to do the sudo make uninstall and see what got missed. Of course what was in my /home directory was expected to be missed. Also missed was: /usr/local/lib/xastir and the contained fcc-get files /usr/local/share/xastir and some files within /usr/local/share/doc/xastir and some files within /etc/ld.so.conf.d/xastir* files Which is not to bad to have to chase down and clean up. There you have it, some feed back for the maintainer of the makefile and for the wiki. This was all very interesting to me as I've _never_ done a make uninstall that I can recall. It didn't even cross my mind that our Makefiles were set up for it. Kind'a funny. Tom: Should we spend some time to try to clear up the uninstall stuff and document it on the Wiki and the text docs? Since it's not used much, I could go either way on it. It might be good to document the manual uninstall at least. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] openstreetmap image download
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jon Kåre Hellan wrote: Here's the URL to download a region from openstreetmap as a png image: http://tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=10.249,63.253,10.642,63.51scale=22format=png Bounding box in decimal degrees, image format, and scale. Not sure what scale means, but at my latitude, scale 50 yields about 62 m / pixel. Their FAQ says: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#What_is_the_map_scale_for_a_particular_zoom_level_of_the_map.3F AFAIK, there are no other online maps of this country (Norway) which permit use in Xastir. The quality is highly variable, but right around here, it is pretty good (high geek density). Is it possible to write a user script which would let xastir use these maps? Yes, it should be possible. Since it's an open project, details of the CGI script should be readily available. Too bad it's not a WMS map server 'cuz then you could use it with our current code. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] openstreetmap image download
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jon Kåre Hellan wrote: Here's the URL to download a region from openstreetmap as a png image: http://tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=10.249,63.253,10.642,63.51scale=22format=png Bounding box in decimal degrees, image format, and scale. Not sure what scale means, but at my latitude, scale 50 yields about 62 m / pixel. Their FAQ says: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ#What_is_the_map_scale_for_a_particular_zoom_level_of_the_map.3F AFAIK, there are no other online maps of this country (Norway) which permit use in Xastir. The quality is highly variable, but right around here, it is pretty good (high geek density). Is it possible to write a user script which would let xastir use these maps? Yes, it should be possible. Since it's an open project, details of the CGI script should be readily available. Too bad it's not a WMS map server 'cuz then you could use it with our current code. Another possibility, snag their standard XML data and then use this: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/export/osm2shp Before rendering it in Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Xastir Wiki
1) Should the Xastir Documentation link on the main Xastir page be labeled Xastir WIKI instead? I think it'd be more descriptive. 2) On the Xastir Wiki main page I see: # HowTo's (Specific installation info) # Installation Notes (Specific installation info) That's confusing. I'd like to see these combined, or else move the system-specific installation notes from HowTo's over to Installation Notes. Make sense? Anyone want to take care of that? 3) I requested the text for our Maps Wiki page from WA7NWP which he promptly sent me (Thanks Bill!), so our Maps Wiki page is back but on our Wiki now instead of his. When the page was originally created we didn't have our own Wiki. The new page is here and linked to from our main Wiki page: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Xastir_Maps It could probably use some updating. 4) Somebody did a very nice job of replicating my Xastir SAR Features page from Eskimo.com/Wetnet.net in our Wiki, so I've linked that in to a couple of the Wiki pages as well and will retire my original web pages eventually. The new page is here: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Search_and_Rescue%2C_(SAR) and linked into the main Wiki page and the Major_Features Wiki page. 5) The Major_Features page contains a bunch of downloadable maps links. Perhaps some or all of these should be moved to the Xastir_Maps page? Perhaps the pages should reference each other? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: * NOTE: If you are running OpenSUSE, or any other Linux distro which utilizes udev (udev is included in almost every 2.6 kernel based Linux distribution), then in order to permanently change permissions of your ttyS0 port (or any ttyS* port), you must edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules file. That's the same file I edited in order to get my USB joystick working for BZFlag under Linux (another slight distraction, along with MythTV the Olympics). -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: It seems your right, everything is now owned by Oracle. Does this mean you may have to find another DB for this purpose? Berkeley DB in various forms is used by darned-near everyone. It's a very standard format. Check whether it's open-source: If so, it'll continue to be available for a long time to come. If not, then it depends on whether Oracle continues to make it available in a similar manner as before. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I did everything you suggested here Curt, removed every trace of LessTif I could find from my machine. Installed OpenMotif-2.1.32-22i into usr/ and then ran the following; ./configure --prefix=/sw --with-rtree --with-bdb-incdir=/sw/include/db4 --with-bdb-libdir=/sw/lib You should be able to skip the --with-rtree flag now as that's the default. I even rebooted after. But I still don't have menu names in Timing. Did you do a make afterwards and then change to root and do a make install? 1) How do I make sure that LessTif is completely gone from my system, what would be the Unix entry to do this? If you installed everything in /sw, I'd look in /sw/lib, /sw/include, /sw/include/Xm, etc. for anything with lesstif in the name. I can't recall how closely it appears to be motif now: It is designed to be a replacement for Motif so it may appear very much the same as a Motif install. 2) Is the ./configure I use above OK or should I modify it in some way, I have to admit I really don't know what that does, I suspect it does exactly what it says configure's Xastir. But for example it does not turn map caching on and somewhere I was given this ./configure to do that. Map caching should automatically be enabled by configure if it finds the Berkeley DB library and include files. If you have DB4 installed in /sw/include/db4 and /sw/lib as you show in your configure line then it should find it. 3) Should I be running GraphicsMagick or imageMagick? Whichever works best for you. They're mostly interchangeable. I prefer GM unless there's some problem with it. I'm running IM now because the GM package for OpenSUSE-11.0 is compiled incorrectly. Libraries used: GraphicsMagick libProj GeoTiff ShapeLib PCRE Dbfawk rtree libcurl @(#)Motif Version 2.3.0 GraphicsMagick 1.1.7 2005-10-12 Q8 http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ Looks good except map_caching is not listed which means there's something wrong with your DB4 install or your configure line that specifies where to find them, and except for the Motif Version 2.3.0 as someone else already mentioned. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Jim Morgan wrote: No sir. I use the DB9 serial port. Ok. Did you track the problem down to permissions problems or perhaps to something else trying to use the serial port? Note that a lot of newer Linux systems have switched to using the udev system which creates entires in /dev only for devices that actually exist in your system. This means that it creates them and sets their permissions each time you boot. If you're manually changing permissions in /dev and they keep getting reset, this may be your issue. I only figured out enough to change the permissions on my USB joystick so that each time the device is created I can use it. I had to go into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and change a file in there. Interesting. Yea, we create symlinks to the proper language files for language.sys and help.dat. Acutually this is a problem someone else had using Xastir with Knoppix. I do not understand fully what problem they had so any explanation I might provide would not suffice. Roger. I'll have to look into why we create symlinks each time we run (we shouldn't do that), plus what the problem is with Knoppix and some compressed filesystem with redirects... I hadn't heard of that problem before. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: Unfortunately I don't have any experience with Mac OS X. Evidently the version of openMotif that you have obtained through the Mac channels is the one with the slider menu bug, but I don't know what to tell you to try to get a different one. Maybe one of the other Mac users can jump in. You need OpenMotif 2.2.x or 2.3.1. Avoid 2.3.0 which is probably what you have installed now. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] GPS Accuracy -- relative vs absolute
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Gerry Creager wrote: In general terms, you've got GPS accuracy (repeatability vice a known, surveyed point) on the order of 6 meters. This has been the same ever since DoD turned off selective availability in 2000. There are times when it's better, times when it's worse, mostly due to satellite constellation geometry. If you use DGPS, RTK or WAAS, you should see an improvement of about (not precisely) an horder of magnitude. Lots of receivers have WAAS now. The simplest possible way to put it: DAO or Base91-Compressed packets allow for more precision but GPS, unless augmented, will not be accurate enough to make use of it. Unaugmented GPS _will_ fill in the extra digits but those extra digits will be worthless. This is a better situation than standard APRS or Mic-E packets where the precision of the packet is not enough to represent what standard GPS'es are capable of doing since Selective Availability was turned off years ago. Standard APRS or Mic-E packets give about 40' x 60' resolution in my part of the world. Use a WAAS unit and have a clear view of the southern sky so you get a good WAAS lock: You'll be able to take advantage of the extra precision that Base91-Compressed or DAO gives you. Assuming that the APRS software makes proper use of these types of packets. As soon as you lose your low-angle view of the southern sky due to obstructions you are back to 6 meter precision, so WAAS is useless in a lot of terrain. If you're in a fairly flat area with a good southern view then it can work while mobile/portable quite well. The datum of the GPS is also important if you're trying to actually use the extra precision: Set the GPS to WGS84 datum. DAO can send the datum along as well but Xastir doesn't currently have support for translating the received datum into WGS84 for display. We can also get into my old argument about actually using the extra precision with accurate maps and hand-placing objects (not using GPS), but that's a very specific case and not a common use. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Jim Tolbert wrote: Does anyone know if this release includes the DAO decode code? Yes. Decoding only. If it is there, will XASTIR automatically decode and plot DAO packets ( except the the square of uncertainty)? Yes, it should. I am just trying to screw up the courage to take a system that is working, (with held from all you folks!) and upgrade it to the new version of Xastir. By the way. I am running openSUSE 10.2. In practical terms, what are the advantages to upgrading to openSUSE 11.0. If you're happy with 10.2 and are worried about screwing up the system, then don't. I ran 10.3 on multiple systems for quite a while and it worked well. I finally upgraded my last 10.3 system to 11.0 just this week. Are you aware of the Xastir RPM's that I've been releasing when I do a snapshot? They're on my Eskimo ftp site and I released the latest 10.3 version just a little while ago. I make 11.0 versions yesterday. This is the easiest way to install Xastir on an SuSE system. I won't be releasing any more 10.x versions as I no longer have any 10.x systems to prepare them on. You may be able to install the 10.3 RPM on your 10.2 system. If you want to keep up with Xastir RPM's from now on, you'll want to upgrade to 11.0. If compiling Xastir from sources it's fine to stick with 10.2, probably indefinitely. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I installed OpenMotif v2.1.32 how do I make sure Xastir picks it up? After the load I ran Xastir and it still has the same problems. Make sure you don't have earlier packages of OpenMotif or OpenMotif-devel still installed. Remove Lesstif and Lesstif-devel packages. This is a competing package which does the same thing as OpenMotif, so one will generally replace the other. Make sure you install OpenMotif-devel-2.1.32 if your system uses different packages for the libraries and the header (development) files. Many Linux distributions do it this way but I don't know whether OSX does this. Run Xastir's ./configure. It should pick up the new one. Run make and then become root and run make install or do sudo make install if you have sudo set up properly. Once Xastir is compiled, Help-About should display the new Motif version. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Jim Morgan wrote: To refresh our minds a bit- I am trying to run Xastir on a Fluxbuntu computer with a Celeron processor and 64MB. The issue is that while Xastir (sometimes) says the interface thru the serial port is up the computer will not talk to the radio. Are you using a USB serial adapter? festival_client: connect to server failed SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival Could not read Language file: /home/linux/.xastir/config/language.sys! Error in language file! Exiting... Looks to me as if it requres a running festival server. This is easy: get it with klik://festival and then then launch festival as a server with No. The festival thing is just a warning and has nothing to do with the language file. You don't need to run Festival. If you want to get rid of this warning once and for all, get rid of the Festival packages and re-run configure/make/make install, or else keep the packages and run ./configure --without-festival. The warning is harmless though as-is. If you _want_ to run Festival, that's fine too but it's not necessary. Besides, it seems to look for a configuration file in ~/.xastir/config/language.sys - and here comes the catch: xastir seems to replace this file at every run with a symlink (and due to klik's relocate-patch, this fails). So you have to do manually: Code: # unpack cmg /sbin/fsck.cramfs -x ~/Desktop/xastir ~/Desktop/xastir*.cmg # create directory mkdir -p ~/.xastir/config/share/xastir/config # copy language files cp ~/Desktop/xastir/usr/share/xastir/config/language-* ~/.xastir/config/share/xastir/config # delete unpacked AppDir rm -rf ~/Desktop/xastir/ Interesting. Yea, we create symlinks to the proper language files for language.sys and help.dat. This is so one can switch languages for the menus and help text from English to one of the other supported languages. I was unaware of this causing problems, but it looks like you're using a compressed filesystem and the symlinks are getting created pointing to the wrong place? This might be something we could fix in the code if it were explained well enough to us. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Dialog window sizes again. (fwd)
I responded privately but thought better of it so am sending this to the list as well. This might help others whose window managers know better and are corrupting the window placement or sizing. FWIW: I'm running OpenSuSE-11.0 w/FVWM2 window manager (not KDE or Gnome, the standard choices). I'm not seeing these problems. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:03:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dexter N Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Xastir] Dialog window sizes again. On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Dexter N Muir wrote: OS is Mandriva 2008.1, WM=KDE. Bog-standard, default settings. AFAIK no Desktop Effects. The best I can suggest then is to try another window manager. I don't know whether that's available on your system, but a worthy thing to try to see if it's a window manager specific problem. Dock-position is not top of main window as such, it's top-left of total app window. Not how it's supposed to work. This is probably due to your window manager as well. For the popup windows Xastir goes through a sequence of layouts like: *) Near top and somewhat right of drawing area top left. *) Below right of the last window by about the size of the window decorations. *) Repeat until five windows near each other. *) Somewhat below and right of first position above. *) Below right of the last window by about the size of the window decorations. *) Repeat until five windows near each other. *) Go to beginning. An easy test is to open a bunch of Send Message windows. They'll mostly overlay each other in the two groups as specified above. Where you start in the sequence depends upon how many windows have been opened before. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] OpenSUSE-11.0 problems/fixes
Here are OpenSUSE-11.0 specific problems and solutions. - PROBLEM: No labels on sliders: File-Configure-Timing and Station-Fetch Findu Trail dialogs. FIX: Downgrade OpenMotif to an earlier version, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, or 2.2.4. ALTERNATE FIX: Try Lesstif instead, but expect other problems. - PROBLEM: Crash when fetching internet maps using libcurl. FIX: Install wget and run ./configure --without-libcurl before compiling (latest CVS has this new command-line switch). NOTE: The normal method would be to de-install libcurl-devel, but this currently doesn't make Xastir auto-switch to wget. We must add a dependency on curl/curl.h to the appropriate section of configure.ac to make this work (something for we developers to do). - PROBLEM: Entirely black images rendered by GraphicsMagick: FIX: Revert to an earlier version of GraphicsMagick. ALTERNATE FIX: Install Imagemagick/Imagemagick-devel and either uninstall graphicsmagick-devel, or run ./configure --without-graphicsmagick before compiling. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OpenSUSE-11.0 problems/fixes
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: Here are OpenSUSE-11.0 specific problems and solutions. - PROBLEM: No labels on sliders: File-Configure-Timing and Station-Fetch Findu Trail dialogs. FIX: Downgrade OpenMotif to an earlier version, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, or 2.2.4. ALTERNATE FIX: Try Lesstif instead, but expect other problems. Here's the bug report in the OpenMotif project. The bug was fixed in July of 2007, over a year ago! http://bugs.motifzone.net/long_list.cgi?buglist=1373 OpenMotif 2.3.0 beta 2 definitely has the problem. I grabbed the SuSE-10.3 RPM's for openmotif-2.3.1 and openmotif-devel-2.3.1 from here (These can be installed on SuSE-11.0): ftp://ftp.ics.com/openmotif/2.3/2.3.1/ Then ran these commands to switch to the new Motif: # rpm -e openmotif openmotif-devel openmotif-libs ddd xpdf # rpm -U openmotif-2.3.1-1.suse103.i586.rpm openmotif-devel-2.3.1-1.suse103.i586.rpm Note that ddd and xpdf depend on the openmotif-libs package and so I had to get rid of them as well. acroread can be used in place of xpdf. On another system quite a few packages depended on openmotif-libs and had to be removed, nothing that I truly needed. Switching to OpenMotif-2.3.1 fixed the problem and I have labels on my sliders again. Upgrade/downgrade as necessary to avoid OpenMotif 2.3.0 versions: 2.2.x and 2.3.1 and up should be ok. - PROBLEM: Crash when fetching internet maps using libcurl. FIX: Install wget and run ./configure --without-libcurl before compiling (latest CVS has this new command-line switch). NOTE: The normal method would be to de-install libcurl-devel, but this currently doesn't make Xastir auto-switch to wget. We must add a dependency on curl/curl.h to the appropriate section of configure.ac to make this work (something for we developers to do). - PROBLEM: Entirely black images rendered by GraphicsMagick: FIX: Revert to an earlier version of GraphicsMagick. ALTERNATE FIX: Install Imagemagick/Imagemagick-devel and either uninstall graphicsmagick-devel, or run ./configure --without-graphicsmagick before compiling. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] OpenSUSE-11.0 problems/fixes
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: Here are OpenSUSE-11.0 specific problems and solutions. - PROBLEM: No labels on sliders: File-Configure-Timing and Station-Fetch Findu Trail dialogs. FIX: Downgrade OpenMotif to an earlier version, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, or 2.2.4. ALTERNATE FIX: Try Lesstif instead, but expect other problems. Here's the bug report in the OpenMotif project. The bug was fixed in July of 2007, over a year ago! http://bugs.motifzone.net/long_list.cgi?buglist=1373 OpenMotif 2.3.0 beta 2 definitely has the problem. I grabbed the SuSE-10.3 RPM's for openmotif-2.3.1 and openmotif-devel-2.3.1 from here (These can be installed on SuSE-11.0): ftp://ftp.ics.com/openmotif/2.3/2.3.1/ Then ran these commands to switch to the new Motif: # rpm -e openmotif openmotif-devel openmotif-libs ddd xpdf # rpm -U openmotif-2.3.1-1.suse103.i586.rpm openmotif-devel-2.3.1-1.suse103.i586.rpm Note that ddd and xpdf depend on the openmotif-libs package and so I had to get rid of them as well. acroread can be used in place of xpdf. On another system quite a few packages depended on openmotif-libs and had to be removed, nothing that I truly needed. Switching to OpenMotif-2.3.1 fixed the problem and I have labels on my sliders again. Upgrade/downgrade as necessary to avoid OpenMotif 2.3.0 versions: 2.2.x and 2.3.1 and up should be ok. - PROBLEM: Crash when fetching internet maps using libcurl. FIX: Install wget and run ./configure --without-libcurl before compiling (latest CVS has this new command-line switch). NOTE: The normal method would be to de-install libcurl-devel, but this currently doesn't make Xastir auto-switch to wget. We must add a dependency on curl/curl.h to the appropriate section of configure.ac to make this work (something for we developers to do). This bug is most likely because I still had a source compile of libcurl in /usr/local/* from an earlier install. I deleted it and all the other packages residing there which are now provided by OpenSuSE or by the Ham repository and am NOT getting Xastir crashes now due to libcurl. Ham repository for SuSE-11.0: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/openSUSE_11.0/ - PROBLEM: Entirely black images rendered by GraphicsMagick: FIX: Revert to an earlier version of GraphicsMagick. ALTERNATE FIX: Install Imagemagick/Imagemagick-devel and either uninstall graphicsmagick-devel, or run ./configure --without-graphicsmagick before compiling. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released
Project: XASTIR (xastir)
Package: xastir-stable
Date : 2008-08-15 12:59
Project XASTIR ('xastir') has released the new version of package
'xastir-stable'.
You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45562release_id=620057
or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=620057
Homepage http://www.xastir.org
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