Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: One can do all that with their own libraries based on Xlib. I don't use any Xlib font functions. And how is your Gujerati and accessibility ... ? Non-existant, but the precise place and how it should be plugged in is defined for easy addition if required. I'm also not sure

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel Stone wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 29/01/2010 00:41, Russell Shaw a écrit : What i really meant was Forget existing widget toolkits. One can write their own that is much better than the existing ones, if you architect the thing right. Doing that is not a small job. Takes a lot of time just to think about

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 23:29:43 29.01.2010 UTC+11 when rjs...@netspace.net.au did gyre and gimble: RS xcb is designed to preserve the Xlib api. I prefer to architect RS things completely new and efficient. Laughed out loud. Sorry, could not resist it. I read, debug,

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Ven 29 janvier 2010 14:40, Russell Shaw a écrit : The right way is to make each font a smart font that is simply a C library plugin. In other words, you can't handle real-world fonts. Since those cost millions and can take months or even years to create (see

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Dirk De Becker wrote: Tom, Thanks for the clarifying questions, since I had no clue what information John needs. The answers: - I want my program to be dominating the entire display (i.e. to be on top of all other graphics). Maybe later on, I will like to be able to switch between

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. Unless you need to get any real work done - like non

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. On the contrary, using

Re: X11 fullscreen

2010-01-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan Cox wrote: Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really nontrivial running this month. Unless you need to get any real work done - like non

Re: I18n text input

2010-01-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Glynn Clements wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: For functions XkbLookupKeySym(), XLookupString(), XKeycodeToKeysym(), XKeysymToString etc, how can i tell if the keysym is a graphic printable character like a, or a control character such as Left (XK_Left) ? I need to tell automatically if it's

I18n text input

2010-01-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, For functions XkbLookupKeySym(), XLookupString(), XKeycodeToKeysym(), XKeysymToString etc, how can i tell if the keysym is a graphic printable character like a, or a control character such as Left (XK_Left) ? I need to tell automatically if it's a normal unicode character that can be printed

Visuals

2010-01-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do xpyinfo, i get 29 visuals the same: visual: visual id:0xdc class:TrueColor depth:24 planes available colormap entries:256 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0xff, 0xff00, 0xff significant bits in color specification:8

Re: Constraining mouse cursor globally in xorg

2010-01-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Alex White wrote: Hi, Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but here goes.. I need to constrain the mouse cursor in xorg, to prevent it reaching an area of screen that is not visible to the user (don't ask). I've noticed that there is support for this within the x

BUILT_SOURCES

2009-12-17 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, BUILT_SOURCES has no effect. gran.proc.tab.c should be built first, but it doesn't happen. eerat isn't even run: bin_PROGRAMS = appmain appmain_SOURCES = appmain.c nodist_appmain_SOURCES = gran.proc.tab.c BUILT_SOURCES: gran.proc.tab.c gran.proc.tab.c: gran.spec eerat $ -o gran

Re: BUILT_SOURCES

2009-12-17 Thread Russell Shaw
Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:07:40AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: BUILT_SOURCES: gran.proc.tab.c BUILT_SOURCES is a variable, not a target. Ok Thanks Simon. Should be '=' instead of ':'. I knew that, but i didn't type what i mean ;)

Re: Ctrl+alt_bksp

2009-11-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Vandana Vuthoo wrote: Hi, I am having Xserver as v 1.6 on my intel atom board, some how ctrl + alt + bksp doesnot restart my X server, Even setting setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl-alt-bksp in xorg.conf doesnot help. Please provide you inputs. Underscores? setxkbmap -option

Re: [avrdude-dev] USB

2009-11-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Russell Shaw wrote: I just got a usb AVRISP. What permission should i fix? You need read/write permission. As these devices are created dynamically, you cannot do that with a plain chmod, but you have to consult your systems dynamic device facilitie's documentation

Re: [avrdude-dev] USB

2009-11-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Russell Shaw wrote: I just got a usb AVRISP. What permission should i fix? You need read/write permission. As these devices are created dynamically, you cannot do that with a plain chmod, but you have to consult your systems dynamic device facilitie's documentation

Re: [avrdude-dev] USB

2009-11-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Russell Shaw wrote: Avrdude runs ok as root, but not as a normal user. Sure, device permission problems. This returns -1 and i can't figure out why. That's the way permission problems manifest under Linux: you can still open the USB device in libusb (apparently

Re: [avrdude-dev] USB

2009-11-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Russell Shaw wrote: Avrdude runs ok as root, but not as a normal user. Sure, device permission problems. I got it working now. Directory permissions must have been wrong. I did: sudo chmod -R +X /dev/bus

Logging out

2009-11-15 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In /etc/X11/xorg.conf i have: Section ServerFlags # Allow ctrl-alt-backspace Option DontZap false EndSection but ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't work. (Recent xorg server from debian/unstable: Version: 2:1.6.4-2) How do i log out of X so the xdm screen comes up?

[avrdude-dev] USB

2009-11-15 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I just got a usb AVRISP. What permission should i fix? : strace avrdude -p m8535 -c avrispmkII -P usb -v -U flash:w:proj.hex open(/dev/bus/usb/007/001, O_RDWR)= -1 EACCES (Permission denied) ... dev/bus/usb/007/001 exists, but i don't know what to do about the permissions in this

Re: pkg-config wisdom

2009-10-25 Thread Russell Shaw
William Pursell wrote: Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: pkg-config is broken because it checks for the existance of libraries, and not for the features that are required for the program to run. It does not even check for the existence of libraries. It checks for the existence of a .pc file and

Re: pkg-config wisdom

2009-10-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: pkg-config tries to solve an important problem, but it does so in the wrong way. pkg-config checks for an exact library name, PKG_CHECK_MODULES does not check for a library name at all, but for the name of the .pc file. This gives the administrator

Re: Shared library location

2009-06-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Russell, * Russell Shaw wrote on Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:42:16PM CEST: In my code that isn't installed, i dlopen my.so: ~/home/russ/myproj/src/libdir/my.so When i make install, i want the dlopen to get my.so from a system location: /usr/lib/my.so What make

Re: Shared library location

2009-06-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Russell, * Russell Shaw wrote on Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:42:16PM CEST: In my code that isn't installed, i dlopen my.so: ~/home/russ/myproj/src/libdir/my.so When i make install, i want the dlopen to get my.so from a system location: /usr

Shared library location

2009-06-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In my code that isn't installed, i dlopen my.so: ~/home/russ/myproj/src/libdir/my.so When i make install, i want the dlopen to get my.so from a system location: /usr/lib/my.so What make variable can i utilize that has a value dependent on whether the package is installed or not?

Large scale X

2009-05-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, If i have 1000 user accounts on one accounts server and dozens of X apps on another apps server, how can a user start an X app when they don't have an account on the apps server? (no user accounts at all on apps server) I'm thinking of traditional X where the users use dumb X terminals, and

XSetWMProperties

2009-05-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, What's the xcb replacement for XSetWMProperties() ? ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: annoyances which seem to arise from Unicode

2009-04-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Theodore Kilgore wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Russell Shaw wrote: Theodore Kilgore wrote: ... Have you tried ~/.Xresources? In mine (debian) i have: !Make Alt-o send ESC-o in mc, instead of i with daeresis. XTerm*eightBitInput: true XTerm*altSendsEscape: true XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true

Re: How to specify /var/lib in autoconf?

2009-04-22 Thread Russell Shaw
David Bruce wrote: Hi, I'm about to start modifying my program (Tux Typing) so as to allow creation of custom word lists. The gist is that I need to have modifiable files that are visible to all users. I have been told by knowledgable people that the appropriate location for these files would

Re: [Open-graphics] Video of OGD1 booting as a VGA text console

2009-04-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Miller wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:54:30 Russell Miller wrote: On Tuesday 21 April 2009 17:06:22 Timothy Normand Miller wrote: Howard was kind enough to make a video for us a PC booting Linux with OGD1 as the VGA console. I've uploaded the video to two places:

Re: [Open-graphics] Re: updating the front page - explaining why we need open graphics

2009-04-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Arthur Marsh wrote: Josephblack wrote, on 2009-04-19 19:42: On 13/04/2009, Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Josephblack wrote, on 2009-04-13 15:17: Our front page does not adequately explain why we need an open graphics card. snip With ATI, there is still firmware that is

Qt colormap problem

2009-04-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i run Qt gui apps on a recent X debian/unstable system, when the mouse cursor passes over a Qt window, the whole screen goes black with traces of some menu text still visible, and various widget colours of the Qt app go black too. I don't know if all Qt apps do this. The one that

Qt colormap problem

2009-04-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i run Qt gui apps on a recent X debian/unstable system, when the mouse cursor passes over a Qt window, the whole screen goes black with traces of some menu text still visible, and various widget colours of the Qt app go black too. I don't know if all Qt apps do this. The one that

Re: [avr-chat] Reprise: AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone?

2009-04-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Graham Davies wrote: I started this discussion thread about a month ago. My problem was that connections with debuggers from AVR Studio running in VirtualBox was flakey and unreliable. The conclusion was that I should try GNU/Linux as the VirtualBox host operating system, rather than

Re: [avr-chat] Reprise: AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone?

2009-04-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:56:01 -0400 Graham Davies ecros...@ecrostech.com wrote: Hi Graham, Installing GNU/Linux - I chose Xubuntu 8.10. I think some of your problems could have been avoided by using the regular/Gnome version of Ubuntu, as Gnome comes with tools that

Convenience programs

2009-04-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In /proj/keysyms, i have a Makefile.am and it generates a genkeysyms program in C. /proj/src contains a Makefile.am and it generates source files in this directory using ../keysyms/genkeysyms, then uses these sources in the rest of the compile. /proj/src/Makefile.am has:

Re: Convenience programs

2009-04-01 Thread Russell Shaw
John Calcote wrote: Russell, On 4/1/2009 4:47 AM, Russell Shaw wrote: ... proj/Makefile.am should contain: SUBDIRS = ... keysyms ... src ... Just makesure keysyms is given before src in that list. Thanks, it works now:)

Re: [avr-chat] Avrdude and JTAG / Dragon...

2009-03-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:23:27 -0500 Graham Davies ecros...@ecrostech.com wrote: I think if this was a problem it would have surfaced (a pun?) by now. That's not good enough an argument ;-) Cars are crap and cause loads of problems... but people don't even bother

Re: [avr-chat] Avrdude and JTAG / Dragon...

2009-03-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Robert L Cochran wrote: If you know the motherboard number, look it up on the manufacturers web site. They often have a 10-pin header on the motherboard for connecting an rs-232 connector and parallel port. How does a 10-pin motherboard header translate to a 25 pin parallel port?

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: sprintf

2009-02-27 Thread Russell Shaw
David VanHorn wrote: Hey take it easy, I hardly meant to offend ! I was not judging your skills whatsoever (I am beginner too, I also used printf in my first days of programming...and gave up on it on the same day, as soon as I timed it with my oscilloscope and my eyes

Re: [avr-gcc-list] xmega128A1 + WinAvr 20081205

2009-02-02 Thread Russell Shaw
larry barello wrote: Is anyone successfully using WinAvr and Xmega (and fp/printf) in a significant project? I already corrected the vararg problem and have my project running, but there is a rare stack corruption problem with the xmega that I don’t see on the mega series (mega128 and

Re: Alt-o in xterm

2009-01-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote: kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: I am merely curious. I do not use the funny character mappings for anything, myself. But I can imagine that someone might want to use those sometimes and use mc on other

Re: Problems in the virtual terminal on an Asus eeePC

2009-01-14 Thread Russell Shaw
kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: ... The fix for the funny characters in X does not work here. I had this problem in the xterm. So I created an .Xdefaults file with the contents XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true This cures the problem on my big computer, and recently there has been a

Alt-o in xterm

2009-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same. Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an o with two dots above it. How can i get back the old behaviour? ___ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc

Alt-o in xterm

2009-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same. Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an I with two dots above it. How can i get back the old behaviour? Does it only work in 8859-1 locale instead of utf-8 ? ___ Mc mailing

Alt-o in xterm

2009-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same. Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an I with two dots above it (0xEF, LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS) UTF-8 locale i guess. On the linux console it gives ESC-o (0x1b6f) How can i get mc to work in a utf-8 X

Re: Alt-o in xterm

2009-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same. Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an I with two dots above it (0xEF

Re: Alt-o in xterm

2009-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote: kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: I am merely curious. I do not use the funny character mappings for anything, myself. But I can imagine that someone might want to use those sometimes and use mc on other occasions. Thus, I

Re: GNU Make Extensions

2008-12-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, NightStrike wrote: Ok, so again, I should be allowed to accept that *potential* risk as being far less than the current situation of *actual* risk which is causing problems. If I knew anything about Perl, I'd just do it myself, but alas, the

Re: Up arrow key not working

2008-11-13 Thread Russell Shaw
Robin Cook wrote: I am using evdev. Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel evdev Option XkbLayout us Option XkbVariant dvorak Option XkbRules Xorg EndSection gnome keyboard config

Openssh on Hurd

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do #ssh-keygen on debian Hurd, i get: PRNG is not seeded. I set RANDFILE=/hurd/ext2fs as a source of randomness, but it didn't help.

Re: openssh

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Will wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did apt-get install openssh-server The install script bombs out saying: Creating SSH2 RSA key; this may take some

Re: openssh

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Barry deFreese wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Will wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did apt-get install openssh-server The install script bombs out saying

Re: openssh

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Banck wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:49:55PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Setting up random-egd (0.5-0+hurd.1) showtrans: /dev/random: No such file or directory showtrans: /dev/urandom: No such file or directory ... Hrm, the above is just a test whether the translator

Re: openssh

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:40:16AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Michael Banck wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:49:55PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Setting up random-egd (0.5-0+hurd.1) showtrans: /dev/random: No such file or directory showtrans: /dev/urandom

Re: openssh

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Nigel Horne wrote: Following the discussions of openssh I've tried installing random-egd (btw I have /dev/random even without that package) and got this error: update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/random-egd missing LSB information update-rc.d: see http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts Starting

Re: openssh

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:54:29AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Michael Banck wrote: To use /dev/random, after you've installed random-egd. Probably difficult to try again now when you have copied over some file to it. I saw that there was no /dev/random after i'd

Re: openssh

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 03:07:56AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: I can ssh into the hurd box as root ok, but as russell, ssh freezes. That's due to PriviledgeSeperation; turn it off in /etc/ssh/sshd_config or so. Hi, It works now. I assume it's a bug

Hurd

2008-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I installed Hurd and got it running ok. I downloaded the Hurd source from cvs. Is there a doc that explains the kernel (mach?) internals? Which directory in the cvs tree has all the core kernel stuff? I want to do graphics card programming and need to figure out how to access the pci

Mirrors

2008-10-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, What should i put into sources.list for debian-unstable hurd for an Australian mirror? I currently have (on linux): deb ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

openssh

2008-10-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I did apt-get install openssh-server The install script bombs out saying: Creating SSH2 RSA key; this may take some time ...PRNG is not seeded I set RANDFILE=/hurd/ext2fs as a source of randomness, but it didn't help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Gdb

2008-10-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I've been reading about GNU/Hurd. In linux, a driver for a graphics card done in the kernel needs to be tediously debugged using printk() and related because it's not running in user context. Would a graphics driver (that needs access to system IO) in Hurd be running in a user context where

pci_ids.h

2008-10-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, What is linux-2.6.24/include/linux/pci_ids.h used for? lspci -x gives a device (0x2937) that is not in the list: 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00: 86 80 37 29 05 00 90 02 02 00 03 0c 00 00 80 00 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Re: Building X

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:21PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I built X from git. I get a stippled background when X starts but the mouse cursor is invisible. The mouse is working because i tested it with xev. I built and installed in this order

Re: Building X

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Keith Packard wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:52 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: You don't ask for the stipple though. It's the default. My point was that if you want to avoid the vintage X appearance, you'd likely start the X server with a black root window instead of the ugly stipple, and

Re: Building X

2008-09-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:46:21PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I built X from git. I get a stippled background when X starts but the mouse cursor is invisible. The mouse is working because i tested it with xev. I built and installed in this order: commit

Re: [avr-libc-dev] [bug #23677] Request for cbrt() and strdup to be added to libc

2008-06-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Andy Hutchinson wrote: URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23677 Summary: Request for cbrt() and strdup to be added to libc Project: AVR C Runtime Library Submitted by: hutchinsonandy Submitted on: Sunday 06/22/2008 at 21:51

Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: Request for cbrt() and strdup to be added tolibc

2008-06-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Weddington, Eric wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] org] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:09 PM To: avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: Request for cbrt() and strdup to be added tolibc As Andy H

Re: [avr-libc-dev] [bug #23677] Request for cbrt() and strdup to be added to libc

2008-06-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Andy Hutchinson wrote: URL: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?23677 Summary: Request for cbrt() and strdup to be added to libc Project: AVR C Runtime Library Submitted by: hutchinsonandy Submitted on: Sunday 06/22

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad to hear that your work wasn't impeded by our slowness. I would have got vga functionality working to some degree before any press releases because that would acid test for any bugs

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad to hear that your work wasn't impeded by our slowness. I would have got vga functionality working to some degree before any press releases because that would acid test for any bugs

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked about the pci thing in a previous post and was ignored. I suggested the vga thing in a previous post and was ignored. Feeling like you're being ignored seems to be a common problem

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But we need to think of things that make us say I'd pay $1500 to be able to do that specific thing better. They can be relatively niche applications, though. I spoke with someone at Pixar, and

Re: [Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

2008-06-06 Thread Russell Shaw
André Pouliot wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Timothy Normand Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But we need to think of things that make us say I'd pay $1500 to be able to do that specific thing better. They can be relatively niche applications

Re: [Open-graphics] OGD1 makes Slashdot

2008-05-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Attila Kinali wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 10:28:26 +0200 Kenneth Ostby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth P. Stox: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/21/2136243 Remember to just read the article. I warn you, skip the comments :) Too late! i already did ^^; And yes, it's the

Re: [Open-graphics] Announcement: Finally ready to announce OGD1 pre-orders

2008-04-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Dieter wrote: - OGD1 is for hardware hackers. This isn't just about graphics. If all you wanted was a graphics card that worked with Free Software, we've had that for a long time with Matrox, for some time with Intel, and most recently and significantly with ATI. And VIA has very recently

warning: comparison with string literal results in unspecified behaviour

2008-01-19 Thread Russell Shaw
How do i disable that? My code explicitly compares string pointers.

Re: i18n fonts

2008-01-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Rich Felker wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:16:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor. I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english. I've read the Unicode Standard book. When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs

Re: [ft] i18n fonts

2007-12-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: ... I can parse in the gsub tables. I was trying to do the gpos tables, but the OpenType spec doesn't define ValueRecord in Single Adjustment Positioning: Format 1: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/gpos.htm I found it in there. For some reason, Ctrl-F

Re: i18n fonts

2007-12-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Rich Felker wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:16:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor. I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english. I've read the Unicode Standard book. When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs

Re: i18n fonts

2007-12-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Rich Felker wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:16:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: ... Hi, I can parse in the gsub tables. I was trying to do the gpos tables, but the OpenType spec doesn't define ValueRecord in Single Adjustment Positioning: Format 1: http

[ft] i18n fonts

2007-12-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor. I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english. I've read the Unicode Standard book. When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs are layed out according to the state contained in the unicode character sequence.

i18n fonts

2007-12-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor. I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english. I've read the Unicode Standard book. When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs are layed out according to the state contained in the unicode character sequence.

Re: [avr-chat] GUI wrapper for avrdude

2007-08-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:55:27 +0200 Juergen Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am passing some quiet vacation afternoons, dreaming. Has a GUI wrapper for avrdude already been considered? Have a look at www.sourceforge.net and use the search box at the top. Searching

Re: CLEANFILES

2007-08-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Cédric Lucantis wrote: Le samedi 04 août 2007, Russell Shaw a écrit : Hi, I'm using automake 1.9.6. In automake.am, i have: CLEANFILES: *.tab.c *.tab.h *.tab.callback However, in the generated makefile, CLEANFILES appears, but is not referenced anywhere. Therefore, make clean doesn't work

Library locations

2007-08-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In automake.am, i have: System_LTLIBRARIES = system.la system_la_SOURCES = modules/System/system.c system_la_LDFLAGS = -module This compiles ok. However, it puts system.la in the top level src directory. I want it to be like: System_LTLIBRARIES = modules/System/system.la

Re: Library locations

2007-08-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Braden McDaniel wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 03:49 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, In automake.am, i have: System_LTLIBRARIES = system.la system_la_SOURCES = modules/System/system.c system_la_LDFLAGS = -module This compiles ok. However, it puts system.la in the top level src directory

Re: Library locations

2007-08-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Braden, Russell, * Braden McDaniel wrote on Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:27:07PM CEST: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 03:49 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I want it to be like: System_LTLIBRARIES = modules/System/system.la modules_System_system_la_SOURCES = modules/System

Re: Library locations

2007-08-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Braden, Russell, * Braden McDaniel wrote on Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:27:07PM CEST: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 03:49 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I want it to be like: System_LTLIBRARIES = modules/System/system.la modules_System_system_la_SOURCES = modules/System

CLEANFILES

2007-08-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using automake 1.9.6. In automake.am, i have: CLEANFILES: *.tab.c *.tab.h *.tab.callback However, in the generated makefile, CLEANFILES appears, but is not referenced anywhere. Therefore, make clean doesn't work as it should.

Re: CLEANFILES

2007-08-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Cédric Lucantis wrote: Le samedi 04 août 2007, Russell Shaw a écrit : Hi, I'm using automake 1.9.6. In automake.am, i have: CLEANFILES: *.tab.c *.tab.h *.tab.callback However, in the generated makefile, CLEANFILES appears, but is not referenced anywhere. Therefore, make clean doesn't work

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Strange problem - Pointer not null when declared

2007-07-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Gerard Marull Paretas wrote: Hello. I've been trying to find the reason of a curious bug, but I can't. It's so strange: I create a new structure that inside contains two pointers to other structures and one uint8_t. However, pointers are not NULL when created, so that makes my code to not

Re: [avr-chat] AVRs in South Africa?

2007-07-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Rodney Arne Karlsen wrote: Hi all Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I'm kinda at my wits end. I am trying to find somewhere in South Africa, preferably in Durban, to get Atmel AVRs in a PDIP package. I contacted Arrow Altech and they only had surface mount, and EBV wanted me to buy a

Re: [avr-gcc-list] -O vs. -O2

2007-07-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Nathan Cooprider wrote: I always hate to say this, but the answer to that might be RTFM. :-) Seriously, it should be in the docs somewhere, if not, then ask for a pointer on the gcc list itself. Okay, okay. I'll try to dig deeper in the manual.

Re: [avr-gcc-list] -O vs. -O2

2007-07-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Nathan Cooprider wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: What are you trying to do? Any autoconf package can be set for -02 with: ./configure CFLAGS=-g -O2 I am using avr-gcc as part of the TinyOS package, along with a bunch of other non-TinyOS tools. The non-TinyOS tools do something to the TinyOS

Re: [avr-chat] TCP/IP : practical guide to implementing ? (LONG post...)

2007-06-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: Hello list, I apologize in advance for the longer than normally accepted post... I am back on the list, after a very long while off, due to my hobby AVR project stalling... so first of all, hi to the few who may remember me and are still on the list ;-) I would like

Re: gEDA-dev: Re: GEDA development ....

2007-05-08 Thread Russell Shaw
John Doty wrote: On May 8, 2007, at 1:24 PM, al davis wrote: The problem with Spice is that it is not flexible enough. It might be flexible enough for you, but lots of people bump against its problems on a regular basis. That's why there are others like Spectre, Touchstone, Hyperlynx,

[Open-graphics] Drivers

2007-04-08 Thread Russell Shaw
everything analog, high-freq RF, a bit of DSP (Analog Devices), and microcontrollers (AVR mainly). I'm familiar with kernel code and writing device drivers to some degree. I've also written simple graphics compilers and have written LL(1) and LALR(1) parser-generator tools. -- Russell Shaw, B.Eng

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