Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-03-04 Thread John Doty
On Mar 1, 2010, at 4:03 AM, Dave N6NZ wrote: > Ahhh... OK, I get it. Yes, my build brings up the X server. But other than > the start-up time, that doesn't bother me. X11 is preinstalled as of 10.6 > (or maybe 10.5, I forget which) so the hassle factor is pretty minimal. 10.6 seems to defin

Re: gEDA-user: pcb doesn't find my pins

2010-03-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:40:54 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > Perhaps the pin identifier U102-J1-1 is causing issues. So this may be another incarnation of the hyphen-nastiness? Would it be possible to fix this tendency to misinterpret hyphens in names once and for all? ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Ka

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:22:53 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: >For really tiny stuff, I use a Bausch & Lomb wide field > stereomicroscope. Yesterday, I received a used Leica MZ6 microscope head from ebay. Boy, the view is awesome at 10x magnification! There is approx. 10 cm distance object to len

Re: gEDA-user: pcb doesn't find my pins

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 07:47 -0500, Jim wrote: > I'm running 8.04 LTS on my main system. I got burnt when they dropped > support on a non LTS system. I don't have time to upgrade every few > months. I do run openvz and can probably install most any distro. I > have jaunty running on a contai

Re: gEDA-user: pcb doesn't find my pins

2010-03-04 Thread Jim
Peter Clifton wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:55 -0500, Jim wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 07:27 -0500, Jim wrote: Peter Clifton wrote: This is the only part of the file (board.pcb) that mentions the footprint and/or the pins. Element(0x0 "Wiz812mj.fp" "

Re: gEDA-user: pcb doesn't find my pins

2010-03-04 Thread Jim
Peter Clifton wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 09:41 -0500, Jim wrote: dpkg -l | grep -i geda ii geda 1:1.4.0.1 GPL EDA -- So I presume Debian or Ubuntu? I expect if you grab gEDA 1.6.1 from either t

Re: gEDA-user: pcb doesn't find my pins

2010-03-04 Thread Jim
Peter Clifton wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:42 -0500, Jim wrote: Perhaps the pin identifier U102-J1-1 is causing issues. Thanks everyone. I think I understand the issues. I'll just go with pin numbers 1-40 and drop the J1 and J2 mess. It won't match the part, but I can trans

Re: gEDA-user: net= syntax in gschem

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:45 +0900, John Doty wrote: > On Mar 4, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > No, it IS _pinnumber_. pinseq is for slotting and spice ordering only. > > When wiring up a net to a pin (no attributes involved), it is ONLY ever > > "pinnumber" which makes it into the ne

Re: gEDA-user: Hidden releases?

2010-03-04 Thread Dan McMahill
Stefan Salewski wrote: http://www.gpleda.org/ Latest Releases/News gerbv 2.4.0 released on 20100222 gtkwave 3.3.3 released on 20100218 Should these two go into distributions? I think they are not mentioned in the mailing lists? gerbv-2.4.0 should certainly go into distributions. I have no