Re: [Xastir] Font warning message

2008-06-22 Thread kc7zru
Very well known and documented issue. It's in the FAQ - 4.13 You can read it online or find a copy in your source directory (if you use CVS) http://xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net/xastir/xastir/FAQ?revision=1.78&view=markup 73 Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote: echo $LANG -> "en_US.UTF-8" changed L

[Xastir] Any ideas? YB8ZD->NWS_APRS

2008-06-17 Thread kc7zru
Getting these lines in the console I started Xastir in. Hundreds of 'em over and over. Don't think it's a problem in Xastir. More curious as to what it may mean. Ideas? sscanf parsed 1 values in alert.c (3-7 ok) YB8ZD->NWS_APRS: logsheet APRS Net diposting pd milis [EMAIL PROTECTED] sscanf parsed

[Xastir] Radar Images - F9 - Graphics/ImageMagick

2008-06-05 Thread kc7zru
Following the guide on the docs wiki, I've been unable to view radar images ever since upgrading to Fedora 9. Tiz the season for 'ugly' weather - I wanted my radar images! So on a whim, I removed GraphicsMagick-devel, installed ImageMagick-devel - recompiled Xastir and voila!! Online radar ima

Re: [Xastir] still trying to install on Fedora 9

2008-05-28 Thread kc7zru
Well, there's your problem! (right?) "XPM and/or ImageMagick support have not been compiled in." Isn't Image/GraphicsMagick required to display online maps? Also suggest they use GraphicsMagick over ImageMagick due to the historical problems with a dynamic API 73 Eric Christensen wrote: Jo

Re: [Xastir] still trying to install on Fedora 9

2008-05-28 Thread kc7zru
Thanks for the heads up on the "add remove software" changes! Looks like we'll have to go CLI to keep things universal across GUI changes. I've modified the entry in the Wiki to make it work for releases from F7 to F9 - lemme know what you think. FWIW, I've built Xastir on 3 different F9 mach

Re: [Xastir] Xastir ./configure setup

2008-05-18 Thread kc7zru
Tyler, You need to install the X development packages for your system. These are the headers and other files (libraries) other programs use to compile against X. Not just the binaries you already have installed to run X. If you were to install a precompiled, binary of Xastir - you wouldn't ne

Re: [Xastir] Help needed for shared libraries...

2008-05-18 Thread kc7zru
Just a SWAG - but does running, as root, /sbin/ldconfig help any? Larry Shields wrote: *I have just install xastir-1.9.3, everything seem to compile just fine, but when I tried to start xastir &, it stops, saying this: Error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared ob

Re: [Xastir] Fedora 9 Install of Xastir

2008-05-17 Thread kc7zru
Thanks for the ::thwak:: Fred, I just did a clean install of Fedora 9 on my HP nx9500 laptop. Then did an Xastir install following the instructions in the 'how to' section of the Xastir documentations area of the wiki. All looks good! http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Fedora I up da

[Xastir] Couple house-keeping things

2008-04-30 Thread kc7zru
1 - Are Gerry's weather servers still having issues? I just wiped my CVS directory and re-built from fresh in hopes of getting current radar images (T-storm season approaches). But, I'm still getting the same static radar images from USRadar.geo - the other two radar.geo files yield nothing. ./conf

[Xastir] State EMA conference - Wyoming

2008-04-03 Thread kc7zru
se on the table. Using calls of W7VNJ, KC7ZRU-7 and -14 - only W7VNJ is accepting messaging. Bulletins turned off for now. We've got EMA folks from all over the state here. They're looking - hard. Liking the various maps, zoom levels and loving it when I tell 'em "This is real-time

[Xastir] open2300db2APRS

2008-02-24 Thread kc7zru
Not sure what's up - and worse, not sure how to find out! This was all running fine business on a Fedora Core 4 box. Upgraded the server hardware (new mobo, new drives - RAID rocks!) and am now using CentOS 5.1. This is the *last* thing to get sorted in the migration - everything else is worki

[Xastir] IF they get more in stock..

2008-02-11 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
This little 12 channel USB GPS receiver works fine with Xastir on both my HP laptop and my 'Frankenstein' desktop PCs. It's about the size of a matchbox car. Bit wider. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=UT-41 About $29+sh Just got mine via FedEx ground - have'n fun!! No personal interest in

[Xastir] Fedora 8 and Xastir 1.9.2

2007-11-08 Thread kc7zru
For the FWIW file. Just did a clean install of Fedora 8 - being sure to include the default selections for the Development group - and then installed Xastir using the Fedora HowTo on the Xastir.org web site. works fine. ___ Xastir mailing list Xasti

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-06 Thread KC7ZRU
If I'm understanding this right, that'd work for me!! Thanks for the discussion. As a 'drop in' part of xastir itself, I'd guess it'd make things quite a bit larger distribution wise, but sure would make the cross platform bit sweet. I'd be a bit concerned with crossing up users package mana

Re: [Xastir] Playing sounds

2007-07-10 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
On Tue, July 10, 2007 11:27 am, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: > > Uh -- somebody send me a clue how to get sounds to play in Xastir. I'm > trying to get new station announcement, etc., to play, and I don't know > th esyntax. Apparently play with nothing else doesn't do it! > > Tha

Re: [Xastir] educate the un-informed

2007-07-10 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
On Tue, July 10, 2007 11:05 am, Steve Huston wrote: > On 07/10/2007 12:54 PM, KC7ZRU - Tate wrote: >> There's a balloon icon, with a black, dotted square and bisecting lines >> from corner to corner of the square near Salt Lake City. Box covers a >> fairly large area. >

[Xastir] educate the un-informed

2007-07-10 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
See the snapshot at: http://netmanservices.net/snapshot.png There's a balloon icon, with a black, dotted square and bisecting lines from corner to corner of the square near Salt Lake City. Box covers a fairly large area. What does that dotted line box indicate? Maybe some kind of 'visibility' foo

Re: [Xastir] FC6 Install

2007-04-30 Thread KC7ZRU
Ah, you need to - as root - run: /sbin/ldconfig Be sure you've first added the relevant paths to /etc/ld.so.conf Like I alluded to before - this is all explained in the Fedora Howto in the Wiki. 73 Bennett, Joe wrote: Yes I ran the script get-maptools.sh, after I posted the message. I then

RE: [Xastir] FC6 Install

2007-04-29 Thread KC7ZRU
Joe, have you walked through the FC 6 how to in the wiki? http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Fedora ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Stable release timing?

2007-04-13 Thread KC7ZRU
Personally, and yes - I've a bit of 'tude here - I say we release on OUR schedule. If some distro or another - no matter how popular - gets something older due to their policies, that's not an Xastir problem. Our developers work hard to make this thing work on it's own merits. They've gone bey

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-13 Thread KC7ZRU
KC7ZRU wrote: Seems when FC dropped lesstif, they didn't remove it for the upgrade. BACKWARDS!! FC dropped openmotif, not lesstif - my bad. ___ Xastir mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-13 Thread KC7ZRU
Yup, Curt's suggestion of: rpm -qa | grep tif Will tell you. But, that command can take some time run as it has to go through every package installed on your system. You can shorten it all by running: rpm -q openmotif or rpm -q lesstif Results, almost immediate. BUT! You *MUST* get the pack

[Xastir] ARRL Surfin' page focuses on Xastir

2007-03-26 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
"This week, SurfinÂ’ visits a Web site that deals with an APRS application for Linux." - http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2007/03/26/2/ Nicely done to the Xastir crew and congrats to make'n the 'big time'! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http:/

Re: [Xastir] Re: Which distrro are you using

2007-02-18 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
Another distro that'd be familiar to FC/RH users, but has a more 'production' oriented upgrade cycle (read: not every 6 to 8 months or so!) would be CentOS. http://centos.org/ Think of it as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - but with out the paid support or licensing costs. Exploring using i

Re: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-18 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
Gerry Creager wrote: They reside now on aprs.tamu.edu for anonymous FTP. 11 GB later... ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/TIGER I've got to reorganize them a bit over the next couple of days but they're there! gerry Gerry, I think you meant: ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/TIGER2006 - no? _

Re: [Xastir] Which distrro are you using

2007-02-17 Thread KC7ZRU
Ray Wells wrote: My only foray into Redhat was a disaster to install. Made me realise how good Debian is. Ray vk2tv Similar to my experiences with Debian - only inverted. What a freak'n nightmare experience that was! Within hours of the attempt I was back to FC and sighing relief. But ya kn

Re: [Xastir] Which distrro are you using

2007-02-17 Thread KC7ZRU
Fedora Core, currently have 3 of my own Xastir installs, all on FC6. Help a couple buds with Xastir installs on FC5. Note: With the release of Fedora 7, Fedora Core will change it's name to Fedora. Extras and Core are being combined and the 'extras' and 'core' labels dropped. 73, Tate James

Re: [Xastir] Ask not what your Wiki can do for you. Ask rather what you can do for your Wiki.

2006-12-12 Thread KC7ZRU - Tate
a new login. I gave up getting a working password for my callsign login after forgetting it's password. You'll find my edits, efforts, ramblings, misdirections and occasional outright screw ups under 'Zotter' now. Tate KC7ZRU On Tue, December 12, 2006 1:29 pm, James Ewen wro

Re: [Xastir] 536kb image on home page?

2006-11-09 Thread KC7ZRU
Jason, which image is that you're seeing? Biggest image I'm seeing at www.xastir.org is the Xastir logo, it's 19.07 KB. This site doing some kinda browser/version checking and delivering different content to differen visitors? Jason Winningham wrote: As best I can tell the first image on ww

Re: [Xastir] Mapping

2006-11-09 Thread KC7ZRU
Works fine from here using a graphical FTP client. Gerry Creager wrote: I can hit it from inside the TAMU firewall, and the firewall status page shows it open. If you can get to it with a web browser, it is working... especially if you used the url ftp://aprs.tamu.edu Try again, but when yo

Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu Sound

2006-11-06 Thread KC7ZRU
Does 'play' work from a command line? If not, then In Xastir, File > Configure > Audio Alarms In the top box, change 'play' to 'vplay' or whatever is used on Ubuntu. Let us know how it goes. 73 Darryl Gibson wrote: I loaded my sound files, enabled sounds in Xastir, confirmed my box is talkin

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Wiki

2006-11-06 Thread KC7ZRU
Steve Friis wrote: I do like Fedora, but it sure is a B*?$% to get the wireless working on my laptop. Kubuntu and Ubuntu both come up working wireless with no sweat, but then getting all the libraries installed so that Xastir would compile was anther matter. Steve/WM5Z Yea, that's cuz Fed

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Wiki

2006-11-06 Thread KC7ZRU
Only prob with Fedora in a 'production' type environment is it's amazingly rapid release cycle. If you're up to upgrading once a year or so - go for it. For me, it works - I like doing new stuff and playing. That's what Fedora is for. But if you need something that'll "last" for more than a ye

Re: [Xastir] FC-6 and xastir

2006-10-29 Thread KC7ZRU
Cool! I've been working with Chuck to re-gain access to the documentation Wiki. I did the initial FC5 'howto' there (http://kc7zru.net/xastir-fc5.txt) and wanted to add some notes after playing with FC6. Only difference I ran across between FC5 and FC6 is the Openmotif deal. In order to stick

Re: [Xastir] Wiki

2006-10-27 Thread KC7ZRU
Thanks Chuck! That worked for the main site. Talk to ya soon. 73 Chuck Byam wrote: Try again... ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Wiki

2006-10-26 Thread KC7ZRU
OK - found the main page 'forgotten' password stuff at http://www.xastir.org - no idea if that'll also help with the documentation wiki or not - but gave it a shot. Resulte was: Template Error: filename: file /var/www/xastir.org/layout/webbadass/users/newpassword.thtml does not exist. Halted

Re: [Xastir] Serial port

2006-10-23 Thread Tate - kc7zru
Robbie - try this: su chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir exit This is covered and explained near the end of the Fedora HowTo on the wiki. http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Fedora At the end of the section titled:" Get and compile Xastir from CVS" Note, I believe this 'fix' will work fo

[Xastir] Off topic - force gcc 3.2.2 on FC5

2006-10-21 Thread Tate - kc7zru
Hey all, Here's the scoop. Fedora Core 5, gcc 4.1 installed, but have all the 322 'compatability' stuff installed. Least near as I can tell I do. Need to compile an older app, fails miserably using 4.1. This app used to compile faultlessly under RH 7.3 through 9. I remember mplayer used to have

Re: [Xastir] LAN printer

2006-10-21 Thread Tate - kc7zru
Hey Robbie, Just so happens I just put one of these online for our help desk group at work (yea, they get all the 'good' stuff. Me? I got the LJ-IIID w00t! It's mine, all mine no one else's just me!! I don't even have to share with myself if I don't want to. Bwahahahaa!). I don't remember the 4 h

Re: [Xastir] VNC

2006-10-18 Thread Tate - kc7zru
You can change the machine name in the file /etc/sysconfig/network When you do that, you also need to add your new name to /etc/hosts You can put the new names on the same line as the localhost.localdomain. Something like this: 127.0.0.1 mobile-1.local mobile-1 localhost.localdomain localhost Se

Re: [Xastir] Install

2006-10-17 Thread Tate - kc7zru
Robbie, wa9inf wrote: > I'm trying to do a complete install of Xastir and having difficulties > with the "language" and terms of it all, however, I am trying.. I've > tried to get a handle on Linux a few times but would give up, :-( > > Is there a text file, documentation, like a step by step file

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Tate - kc7zru
Bruce, Ain't that about like asking a motorcyle enthusiast group what oil to use in their turboed engines?? About as many answers as there are engines. Me? I use Fedora Core for all my linux needs - I find it runs cooler, smoother and requires fewer filter changes :thumb up: ___

Re: [Xastir] Wiki

2006-09-18 Thread Tate - kc7zru
Curt, WE7U wrote: Our fearless leader has other plans (I think). More to come. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer I was a gonna say, it's dead nuts to put up a wiki. I run 2 here myself. One is the local amateur radio club's site, the other the local Lin