Re: gEDA-user: TV card question

2007-09-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Ales (and everybody else), My apologies, I inadvertently posted this to the wrong group! :-0 Vaughn Ales Hvezda wrote: > Hi, > >> Here's a question for the MythTV experts in the group. > [snip] > > You may want to post these questions to the MythTV users group. I'm sure > there are more MythTV

gEDA-user: TV card question

2007-09-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello everyone: Here's a question for the MythTV experts in the group. Here's the background - I had a Hauppage TV card (which I used for video capture) running fine under Mandrake 10. Then the system's motherboard died, taking the Hauppage card with it. I recreated the system on a new mobo,

Re: gEDA-user: Transformer as voltage transducer?

2007-05-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
Randall, I just happened to do some research on this. The following part: NEC PS2505L-4-A is a quad optocoupler. On the input side, each optocoupler has two diodes connected in opposite directions. These stimulate a phototranistor output. I was using them mainly to see if an 24 VAC control v

Re: gEDA-user: Some Linux distros to consider

2007-03-28 Thread Vaughn Treude
Marc Moreau wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Jason Elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently installed linux on my machine for the sole purpose to install gEDA. I went through a couple of Linux installations before I got gEDA to work and I would like to share my feedback. (S

Re: gEDA-user: autorouting

2006-11-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
DJ Delorie wrote: I'm curious. In which cases do you use the built-in autorouter? When the layout is a jumbled tangle of traces and there's plenty of room. Or for boards so simple that there's little chance of it screwing up. I used auto-routing on my most recent project with pretty good su

Re: gEDA-user: PIC TQFP symbol

2006-11-06 Thread Vaughn Treude
Mark Rages wrote: On 11/4/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Luciani wrote: > On 11/4/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello all: >> Excuse me if I've missed this in some obvious place, but I can't find a >> symbol in s

Re: gEDA-user: PIC TQFP symbol

2006-11-04 Thread Vaughn Treude
John Luciani wrote: On 11/4/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all: Excuse me if I've missed this in some obvious place, but I can't find a symbol in standard library for the TQFP version of the PIC18F4420. I know that other gEDA contributors sometimes keep symb

gEDA-user: PIC TQFP symbol

2006-11-04 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello all: Excuse me if I've missed this in some obvious place, but I can't find a symbol in standard library for the TQFP version of the PIC18F4420. I know that other gEDA contributors sometimes keep symbols on their own sites. Does anyone have one already done? Thanks! Vau

gEDA-user: Re: Newbie PCB DRC questions

2006-10-08 Thread Vaughn Treude
tions. I'll know better next time. :=) Thanks again! Vaughn On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 10:27, Vaughn Treude wrote: > Hello everyone: > I've been checking my board layout with the Design Rule Checker command > in PCB. I was encountering some mysterious behavior and wondering if

gEDA-user: Newbie PCB DRC questions

2006-10-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello everyone: I've been checking my board layout with the Design Rule Checker command in PCB. I was encountering some mysterious behavior and wondering if anybody could explain this a little. 1. The default minimum spacing is 10 mils, yet DRC flags everything that is exactly 10 mils. This is a

Re: gEDA-user: PCB feature wishes

2006-09-30 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 10:35, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I finally figured out how to stretch and move lines by doing a > > ":Select(Connection)" command. (For some reason, it's almost > > impossible for me to grab it with just a click.) This is probably > > what you guys meant when you said a person cou

gEDA-user: PCB feature wishes

2006-09-30 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello all: I finally figured out how to stretch and move lines by doing a ":Select(Connection)" command. (For some reason, it's almost impossible for me to grab it with just a click.) This is probably what you guys meant when you said a person could click and drag the ends of lines. If you can g

Re: gEDA-user: auto router quirks

2006-09-29 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:30, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I've noticed that if you mention the auto-router there's a deathly > > silence here. > > That's because the guy that wrote the autorouter isn't participating > any more. > This brings up the question: how reliable is the auto-router anyway? Is

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: how to connect signals between sheets?

2006-09-28 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 05:40, John Luciani wrote: > On 9/28/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I did not know you had such a big collection of footprints! It would > > have saved me some work. My circuit has a few off-beat components on > > it, but

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: how to connect signals between sheets?

2006-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:54, John Luciani wrote: > On 9/27/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does it only work when all the components are embedded? Sounds like > > > >

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: how to connect signals between sheets?

2006-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
> > > > > > > Does it only work when all the components are embedded? Sounds like > > that could make the resulting file pretty big. > > No. Embedding components is useful when sending your schematic to someone > else who may not use the library that you are using. > > > > I've attached the SCH

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: how to connect signals between sheets?

2006-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 09:59, John Luciani wrote: > On 9/27/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 07:48, John Luciani wrote: > > > On 9/27/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I also hadn

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: how to connect signals between sheets?

2006-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 07:48, John Luciani wrote: > On 9/27/06, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I also hadn't yet figured out how to connect Vcc to +5V and Vss to > > ground. Googling I found a reference to using netname for this > > purpose. S

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: how to connect signals between sheets?

2006-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
7;s something else I might be missing. Thanks! Vaughn T > On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > Hello everyone: > > Sorry, but I'm having a little trouble figuring this one out. > > My circuit diagram is on two sheets. I need to connect a smal

gEDA-user: gschem: how to connect signals between sheets?

2006-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello everyone: Sorry, but I'm having a little trouble figuring this one out. My circuit diagram is on two sheets. I need to connect a small number of signals between them. I found the symbols input-1 and output-1 which looked just like the ones that people use for this purpose. I added them to

Re: gEDA-user: Problem w/ odd-shaped SMD pads

2006-09-26 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 14:46, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Lately I've been creating a lot of footprints for SMD devices. One of > > these devices was a chip resistor. > > Which? The 2010-sized SMD power resistor. > > > I numbered the two shorter pads in the center and just ignored the > > others. >

gEDA-user: Problem w/ odd-shaped SMD pads

2006-09-25 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hi, Lately I've been creating a lot of footprints for SMD devices. One of these devices was a chip resistor. I always try to follow the manufacturer's recommended pad layouts as closely as possible. This is the problem: the diagram shows that both of the two pads should have a small notch in the

Re: gEDA-user: Creating SMT element in PCB

2006-09-21 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:14, ptay wrote: > Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > pads into something the program would understand. It sure would be cool > > if you could create pads using the rectangle tool. > Thanks for the suggestion. I actually did do a couple of them by the te

Re: gEDA-user: Creating SMT element in PCB

2006-09-21 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 09:07, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I was hoping there was some arcane command that could convert > > the pads into something the program would understand. It sure would > > be cool if you could create pads using the rectangle tool. > > Yeah, that would be cool. However, rectangl

Re: gEDA-user: Creating SMT element in PCB

2006-09-21 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 07:26, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I am trying to create a > > footprint for an SMT device (it's an SDIP, which doesn't appear to be in > > the library.) The manufacturer spec gave me the exact dimensions for > > http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/dj_delorie/tools/dilpad.html > > >

gEDA-user: Creating SMT element in PCB

2006-09-21 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello everyone: This time I have a very specific question. I am trying to create a footprint for an SMT device (it's an SDIP, which doesn't appear to be in the library.) The manufacturer spec gave me the exact dimensions for the pads, which I created using the rectangle tool. After creating the

Re: gEDA-user: PCB a bad name ?

2006-09-21 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 21:51, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Sep 21, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Vaughn Treude wrote: > >>Yes, I agree. A large number of PCB beginners, however, complain > >> about the UI and assume it's "unusual" because it was thrown together > >

Re: gEDA-user: PCB a bad name ?

2006-09-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 12:14, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:25 PM, kmk wrote: > >>> PCB's UI in particular deviates from Linux norms. > >> > >>"Linux norms"?? What exactly are the UI "norms" in the Linux > >> world? > > > > I don't think, usability of pcb suffers from deviation o

Re: gEDA-user: PCB a bad name ?

2006-09-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 08:41, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Vaughn Treude wrote: > > PCB's UI in particular deviates from Linux norms. > >"Linux norms"?? What exactly are the UI "norms" in the Linux world? > Please don'

Re: gEDA-user: PCB a bad name ?

2006-09-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 22:50, Arthur Baldwin wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been reading this particular subject a little bit lately and I > think that it's a good idea to link other websites to your page. > However, I think there is a much more important way to increase > interest in the entire gEDA

Re: gEDA-user: Printing PCB layouts.

2006-09-19 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:49, John Griessen wrote: > If you want to make a presentable poster of it, > the page layout program scribus is good. > > It will let you scale images, import .ps files and print at some desired > resolution which you choose at printing time. You can add whatever else yo

Re: gEDA-user: Re: PCB: Moving the endpoint of a line

2006-09-15 Thread Vaughn Treude
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 11:23, John Griessen wrote: > Feedback is good! We like feedback... > > Can the cursor change a little as it hovers to show "grabbable state"? > Can the object near the cursor change a little to show it is the current > object > a click would grab? > > Which would be easi

gEDA-user: PCB: Moving the endpoint of a line

2006-09-12 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello all, I'm new to gEDA; I've been playing with it for a few weeks now, mostly gschem and pcb. Whereas the gschem interface seems reasonably standard, pcb is often maddeningly arcane. I understand that this program has evolved over many years, so perhaps that explains it. I've been trying dil