Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: I updated the links to the new VM and also gave credit to those who have posted, and I see Tom R. deleted the old links to the May version, so the Wiki is good to go. If there is going to be another Wetnet posting of the new version, I'll add the link to

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Lee Bengston
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Could you folks please edit the Wiki page and update the download links? > > Specifically, cleaning out the links to the older one, and fixing up the > "How to fix the problems" section so it is clearly applicable only to the

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy on aprs.tamu.edu

2008-07-31 Thread Lee Bengston
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Gerry Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The files (.zip, .md5sum) are at ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/Xastir/VM/ > > gerry > -- > Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, David Aitcheson wrote: Well so much for that effort. On top of a exstreamly slow upload speed the ISP called and complained about it. Down is okay with them, but up is not. Your client may have a way to limit the bandwidth for uploads. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles (and fixes)

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Right, but 99.9% of the setups have the X client and server on the same box, so the assumption they're the same box is usually valid. Yea, I understand. We also have to work properly when people run it remotely, 'cuz that's part of X11's capability

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread David Aitcheson
Well so much for that effort. On top of a exstreamly slow upload speed the ISP called and complained about it. Down is okay with them, but up is not. My appologies to the person on Isomedia dot com. Dave - KB3EFS On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:09 PM, David Aitcheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > KB3

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread David Aitcheson
KB3EFS has the file as well and has it in the "Transmission BitTorrent Client"; such that when I am online it is available here via the torrent. My system is running Ubuntu 8.04 on a Intel(R)Celeron(R) M CPU 420 @ 1.60 GHz with a 1 MHz wireless pipeline to the internet. Someone running "Ktorrent

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't work that way. They're part of the X11 server > configuration. In fact, if you run Xastir remotely it may look > differently because of different fonts on the X11 server you're > sitting at. Right, but 99.9% of

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Tom Russo wrote: Interesting. I have both of those, too. But since only the fonts in directories I've explicitly added to xorg.conf get found, I don't have the problem. Perhaps your xorg.conf is set up to include both of those directories in its font path? Can you just re

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: I'll see if the system will let me get rid of the cyrillic font (I didn't specifically choose it, so some package must depend on it). Hmmm... /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/* is provided by "xorg-x11-fonts". Seems li

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:15:52PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:59:01PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Tom Russo

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:59:01PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Tom Russo wrote: > > > FWIW, on all of my FreeBSD and Linux systems, the file > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias shows the "fixed" ali

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: I'll see if the system will let me get rid of the cyrillic font (I didn't specifically choose it, so some package must depend on it). Hmmm... /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/* is provided by "xorg-x11-fonts". Seems like a package I don't want to get rid of.

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Haven't messed with X font configuration in a while - how tough would it be to bundle an appropriate font into the xastir distro and use it by default? Doesn't work that way. They're part of the X11 server configuration. In fact, if you run Xastir rem

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Tom Russo wrote: FWIW, on all of my FreeBSD and Linux systems, the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias shows the "fixed" alias to be: fixed-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 Here are my two: /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/fonts.

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Jason KG4WSV
Haven't messed with X font configuration in a while - how tough would it be to bundle an appropriate font into the xastir distro and use it by default? -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listin

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:19:06PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:13:05PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > I have noticed the same thing,

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:13:05PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > I have noticed the same thing, the new code uses a smaller font on my > system. But I like it better though. I like the *code* better (because I get to pick my own

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Patrick Domack
I have noticed the same thing, the new code uses a smaller font on my system. But I like it better though. Quoting Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:55:06PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: Yet another

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:55:06PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Yet another idea would be to use > "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" as the default font. Here > we specify only the parameters that are important and leave

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Alex Carver wrote: I'll give it a shot. It's currently using IM which means a lot of fun trying to uninstall IM and install GM in its place. Nope. You just have to install GM and GM-dev. Xastir's configure program should find it and prefer it over IM. Well, I figured

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Chip Griffin wrote: Is it possible to have the installer check which fonts are available and then modify the new config file? Alternatively is it possible for Xastir to check to see if the font is valid and if not then either select one that is valid? Seems like there ough

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem

2008-07-31 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Thu, 7/31/08, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem > To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" > Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 3:28 PM > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Alex Carver

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Alex Carver wrote: So I poked around and apparently what happened was that Xastir used up all the free RAM in the system. Killing off the process releases almost 30 MB of RAM. The system has 512 MB total, with Xastir freshly restarted there's 28 MB free. Top showed Xas

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:50:20AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06:23:11AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > OK, it's now available at > >

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06:23:11AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > OK, it's now available at > > ftp://ftp.eng.uah.edu/pub/xastir/Xastir-Hardy_080729.zip > > or > > http://ftp.eng.uah.edu/pub/xastir/Xastir-Hardy_080729.zip > > Eve

[Xastir] Xastir-Hardy on aprs.tamu.edu

2008-07-31 Thread Gerry Creager
The files (.zip, .md5sum) are at ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/Xastir/VM/ gerry -- Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 ___

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Jason KG4WSV
OK, it's now available at ftp://ftp.eng.uah.edu/pub/xastir/Xastir-Hardy_080729.zip or http://ftp.eng.uah.edu/pub/xastir/Xastir-Hardy_080729.zip Everyone is welcome to download from there, as it could be a bit faster (or at least a bit of relief) for Lee's connection. I've got an upload started