Re: [avr-chat] AVR-ISP repair - the saga continues..

2007-03-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Andy Warner wrote: I'm following up on Russell's suggestion to try a Mega8535 in 90S8535 compatibility mode as a repair for my fried AVRISPs. Since I have 2 broken units, can anyone download and share known working code for both the 8535 and the 1200 on the card ? To do this, you need to add

Re: [avr-chat] AVR ISP and/or AT90LS8535 questions.

2007-03-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Andy Warner wrote: I've finally broken the last of my cheapo AVR ISP (RS232) programmers. I'm fairly sure I fried the AT90LS8535, by hotplugging it into a target board by mistake one too many times. I used to just buy another; they were cheap enough. Alas, no longer, because they're obsolete,

Re: $129 spectrum analyzer Re: [Open-graphics] PCIe know-how?

2007-03-05 Thread Russell Shaw
. That 2.4GHz thing is nothing much more than cutting and pasting circuits off the data sheet. To cover arbitrary frequency ranges with decent performance, you'll need to design wideband fast-sweeping frequency synthesizers and multiple intermediate frequency amplifier and filter stages. -- Russell Shaw

[Open-graphics] [Fwd: Bob Pease Dr Howard Johnson Discuss Long-Reach Applications]

2007-02-27 Thread Russell Shaw
---BeginMessage--- Title: Analog by Design Show Presenting... Designing Long-Reach Applications with DVI, HDMI, and PCI Express Cable Standards Co-Hosted by Bob Pease & Dr. Howard Johnson Overview: Faster, cheaper, farther.. is this a new car? No, it's a

Re: New Control Centre

2007-02-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: El lun, 05-02-2007 a las 19:19 +, Alex Jones escribió: It's slow. Yes. No one has done any profiling work on it yet. Want to start? It's no slower than the old panel menus, which get purged from memory after a few minutes --- when popping them up, my

Re: [Open-graphics] Vesa

2007-02-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Peter Lund wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 17:26 +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, Is there any place where the Vesa standards can be downloaded for free? http://www.vesa.org I found you can get http://www.vesa.org/public/VBE/vbe3.pdf easily. As you can see, there are many VESA standards: http

Re: Autoconf manual's coverage of signed integer overflow portability

2007-01-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Richard Kenner wrote: A few comments: Many portable C programs assume that signed integer overflow wraps around reliably using two's complement arithmetic. I'd replace portable C programs with widely-used C programs. The normal use of portable means that it conforms to the standard.

Re: Autoconf manual's coverage of signed integer overflow portability

2007-01-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul Eggert wrote: Andrew Pinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me make the point that signed overflow has been undefined since before the C standard was finialized and in fact there is a nice paper/book called C Traps and Pitfalls[2] which mentions all of this back in 1988. C Traps and

Re: Autoconf manual's coverage of signed integer overflow portability

2007-01-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Richard Kenner wrote: A few comments: Many portable C programs assume that signed integer overflow wraps around reliably using two's complement arithmetic. I'd replace portable C programs with widely-used C programs. The normal use of portable means that it conforms to the standard.

Re: [Pgui-devel] Checking out

2006-10-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Olivier Bornet wrote: Hi Russel, On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 03:47:06PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I used the instructions at http://picogui.org/links/repository.html Seems that the instructions are no more correct. svn co http://navi.picogui.org/svn/picogui/trunk/ picogui Surfing on navi

Re: aclocal search path

2006-09-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Russell, * Russell Shaw wrote on Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 03:00:29PM CEST: Does aclocal have a way to add m4 directories using an environment variable? AFAIK no, but you can add directories using the -I flag. On debian, it only looks in /usr/share/aclocal. I want

aclocal search path

2006-09-17 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, Does aclocal have a way to add m4 directories using an environment variable? On debian, it only looks in /usr/share/aclocal. I want it to look in /usr/local/share/aclocal too. I couldn't find the source for aclocal in the automake tree.

pkgsysconfdir

2006-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, There is pkgdatadir, pkglibdir, and pkgincludedir. Wouldn't it make sense to have a pkgsysconfdir too?

Re: Exec install location

2006-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Russel, * Russell Shaw wrote on Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:21:20PM CEST: What do i put into Makefile.am to get a program installed into /usr/bin? (I just read the autoconf and automake manuals) Nothing, you just ./configure --prefix=/usr or, if you want only

Re: Exec install location

2006-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Russel, * Russell Shaw wrote on Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:21:20PM CEST: What do i put into Makefile.am to get a program installed into /usr/bin? (I just read the autoconf and automake manuals) Nothing, you just ./configure --prefix=/usr or, if you want only

Re: [ft-devel] Determining the size of space character

2006-08-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Ivan Tarapov wrote: Russel, I got freetype from CVS - there were some differences from the 2.2.1 version I am using, but the problem with calculation of CBox for space character is not fixed. Basically the code is like this: error = FT_Load_Glyph(face, curchar, FT_LOAD_DEFAULT); . error

Re: [ft-devel] Kerning support in freetype

2006-08-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) freetype docs claim that FT_Get_Kerning returns values in 26.6 format, but it looks like they are not. It is 26.6, because i've been using it. 2) is it possible to get a number of all available kerning pairs? looking

Re: [ft-devel] Kerning support in freetype

2006-08-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need it to implement behaviour of a win32 API GetKerningPairs, which is able to return total amount of kerning pairs available. I don't see why that info shouldn't be available for an application which wants to cache it for any

Re: Next Generation Console Font?

2006-08-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Rich Felker wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:05:00PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Subpixel only works on LCDs, which produce ugly output. I think sub-pixel rendering also works for a crt, but a sudden change in pixel value (such as the edge of a black square on a white background) is smeared

Re: Next Generation Console Font?

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Rich Felker wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:07:09PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Rich Felker wrote: ... snip long stuff I agree on the total crappiness of current mainstream GUI implementations. Thanks. It's refreshing to have some support from the non-bloat crowd in m17n issues. Usually

Re: Next Generation Console Font?

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Rich Felker wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:46:29AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: One possible approach I've considered is having the client application provide an X font server to serve its own fonts, the sole purpose being to allow them to be cached on the server side. The same thing can

Re: Next Generation Console Font?

2006-08-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Rich Felker wrote: ... snip long stuff I agree on the total crappiness of current mainstream GUI implementations. A decent X GUI application should run blazingly fast on a 66MHz 486, and only be a few tens of kB in size. I'd love to have X apps run well on old laptops with 4MB video ram. When

Re: gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo graphics library

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Paddock wrote: On Monday 31 July 2006 05:26, Levente wrote: If you have a $10k worth of software, use that. gEDA is for thoes, who don't (wanna) have. I have the $15k+ software, Protel, and I think it sucks compared to gEDA/PCB. It has become so bloated that there is no consistency in

[ft] Ascii Space

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using fonts from: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf For all normal printable characters, this works ok: error = FT_Get_Glyph(face-glyph, glyph); error = FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap(glyph, src-rendermode, 0, 1); However, if the character is a space (ascii 32), then

Re: [ft] Ascii Space

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Werner LEMBERG wrote: However, if the character is a space (ascii 32), then FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap() fails with error=6 invalid argument. Is that normal? Even though there is no visible glyph, shouldn't it give an all-zeros bitmap of the correct width? Please provide a self

Re: [ft] Line spacing

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Werner LEMBERG wrote: I checked out cvs freetype2, but the freetype2/docs subdirectories are empty. ??? Can you verify this, please. I currently don't have CVS access. Note that you won't find step2.html there -- this isn't in a CVS. Found it:

Re: gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

2006-07-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Stuart Brorson wrote: Generalizing, the problem is *dependencies*. For end users, one of gEDA's bigger problems is the number of dependences. Distros are all over the map in terms of what is bundled, what is not, what is installed by default and what is not. Many of the complaints we hear

gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

2006-07-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Stuart Brorson wrote: Anyway, IMO we shouldn't require users to build .pdf files in their distributions. Pdfs should just come with the distribution. IMO a .pdf file is a make dist target, requiring the developer to have the right tools installed, not the user. If every package had pdf files

[ft] FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD

2006-07-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, It says FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD gives a 3x image width for sub-pixel rendering on an LCD. Wouldn't this work ok for a CRT too? ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

2006-07-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Stuart Brorson wrote: Al, group, I am getting the next spin of the gEDA CD ready for release. On FC5 I have a problem: If dvipdfm is installed, but Latex is not, I get this error message:... Latex is required to get a Tex DVI file.

Re: [ft] Line spacing

2006-07-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Werner LEMBERG wrote: I've read the FAQ and tutorials, and found that text_height is defined in: 3. Global glyph metrics at http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html However, it doesn't seem to be in FT_FaceRec. What field do i use for line-line spacing? (rather than

Re: How much interest in a debian-science.org repository?

2006-07-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Dear list, Currently there are a fair number of repositories of science-related unofficial Debian packages out there. I've been thinking that it might make sense to consolidate them into a single site. This would have several advantages: - Permit convenient one-stop

Re: [ft] Bitmap fonts

2006-07-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Werner LEMBERG wrote: So, when i load a bdf bitmap font (non-scaleable), where do i get the character width, advance, line-spacing, etc? FT_Bitmap_Size. I'll add a pointer to the docs. But that doesn't have per-character metrics such as the width of a character. Correct, but values in

Re: [ft] Bitmap fonts

2006-07-02 Thread Russell Shaw
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:47:14 +0200 (CEST), Werner LEMBERG wrote: In struct FT_FaceRec_, the glyph slot and other useful dimensional information is after: /*# the following are only relevant to scalable outlines */

Re: [XFree86] nVidia driver maimed my X server

2006-06-04 Thread Russell Shaw
andrew dunkin wrote: I just installed an nVidia graphics driver on my Mandrake 10 Linux system and it seems to have wrecked X in the process. The nVidia installation script started an interactive dialog within which I was asked if it could alter X to make the driver work. I said OK. DOH! After

Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

2006-05-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Ben Burton wrote: Hi, I think Mathematics is also part of Science. FWIW, I would argue that mathematics is not a science -- it does not use the scientific method, there is no hypothesis and experimentation -- it is a more self-contained discipline that, while it seeks to be useful, is not

Re: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

2006-05-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Ben Burton wrote: Hi, I think Mathematics is also part of Science. FWIW, I would argue that mathematics is not a science -- it does not use the scientific method, there is no hypothesis and experimentation -- it is a more self-contained discipline that, while it seeks to be useful, is not

Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

2006-05-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Ben Burton wrote: Hi, I think Mathematics is also part of Science. FWIW, I would argue that mathematics is not a science -- it does not use the scientific method, there is no hypothesis and experimentation -- it is a more self-contained discipline that, while it seeks to be useful, is not

Re: resizing with gravity

2006-04-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Sasha Vasko wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Sasha Vasko wrote: ... Yes and one of this assumption is that app has no control over its position on the screen. On X Window platform that is. That's *your* assumption. Whoever writes an app can assume anything they like. If they say their app works

Re: resizing with gravity

2006-04-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Sasha Vasko wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Sasha Vasko wrote: An X app might open a grid of top-level windows, and rearrange them as more windows are added or removed. No application should ever rely on being able to do that. No app for use by general users should expect that. However

Re: resizing with gravity

2006-04-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Sasha Vasko wrote: Dan Winship wrote: Yes, that's why I suggested the text about Clients SHOULD always include x and y in this case, because then it works regardless of how the WM behaves. IOW, we declare the disputed functionality to be deprecated and essentially undefined, since as you note,

Re: String functions with end pointers?

2006-04-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul D. Smith wrote: %% Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rs man stpcpy ??? char *stpcpy(char *dest, const char *src); DESCRIPTION The stpcpy() function copies the string pointed to by src (including the terminating `\0' character) to the array pointed to by dest

Re: resizing with gravity

2006-04-17 Thread Russell Shaw
Dan Winship wrote: I spent the weekend communing with the ICCCM and the EWMH and will be sending a bunch of messages... My first issue is with window gravity. The EWMH says: ... So, I recommend that that section of the EWMH be gutted and rewritten (I'll provide text if there is consensus

Re: questions about _NET_SUPPORTED

2006-04-17 Thread Russell Shaw
Dan Winship wrote: _NET_SUPPORTED _NET_SUPPORTED, ATOM[]/32 ... I can submit a patch with this change and changes either explicitly requiring or un-requiring the various other hints, depending on how people feel. Anything that removes ambiguity is good.

Re: [avr-chat] Simple endianess question

2006-04-16 Thread Russell Shaw
David Kelly wrote: On Apr 16, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Rick Mann wrote: On Apr 15, 2006, at 23:53 , Russell Shaw wrote: it is the same as foo 4095. If endian mattered, you'd have to change every number in your program to compile it on a different endian machine. Yes, of course. It makes sense

Re: nested packages

2006-04-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Rossi wrote: Hi, I have 2 projects, CGDB and libgdbmi. CGDB depends on libgdbmi. I would like to make libgdbmi an autoconf package so that other people can benefit from it. Is there a nice way to have CGDB's package use libgdbmi's package as if it were all 1 package? I would like to avoid

Re: [avr-chat] AVCC / JTAG oddity

2006-03-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Gary Douglas wrote: Hi all, Just got a new board in, and it's behaving strangely. It's and ATMEGA64 design, but is not usign the A to D. I've connected AVCC to +5 observing all of the regular precautions (bypass cap...). When AVCC is connected The unit cannot be programmed via JTAG (JTAGICE

Grouping header files during build

2006-02-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I have a build tree consisting of various programs and libraries, all in separate subdirectories. The programs are built using these libraries. Both programs and libraries get installed. When each library is built, i want to copy its header to a header-directory and its object to a

Copying a file after each subdirectory build

2006-02-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I have lots of libraries and programs in separate directories, each with its own configure.ac and Makefile.am. What can i put into Makefile.am so that after each library is built, it will copy its header file and object file to another directory in the project tree? I want all the library

Re: [avr-gcc-list] object file break up

2006-02-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Ning Xu wrote: Hi, I am thinking of breaking a big avr object file into a set of smaller object files. good Is it possible in theory? yes does anyone know any tool out there that does this? brain;) You need to separate the project into multiple source files and compile and link

Re: debug builds with NO optimizations

2006-02-06 Thread Russell Shaw
John Calcote wrote: Generally, when I build with the DEBUG macro defined, it's because I want to step through a portion of my code with the debugger. However, I've noticed that using AC_PROG_CC sets CFLAGS to -g -O2 on GCC - and tries to use similar options on other compilers. I really like

Re: FORTRAN common blocks

2006-01-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Richard James wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Ricardo Biloti wrote: One problem I have never been able to resolve - I accept that C is better for systems programming, but why on earth does anyone use it for scientific code? Can somebody enlighten me? Obviously, that assertion is a

Alignment of multiple top-level windows

2005-12-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, How can i enforce the relative arrangement of multiple top-level X windows in an ICCCM compliant way? I want this arrangement of three windows on startup: ++ | Menubar |

Re: [e-users] www.enlightenment.org

2005-12-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Dènis Riedijk wrote: On 12/19/05, *Wouter van Marle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 12:24 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: beyond pulling stings/favors or hiring a private detective to find mandrake - we can do nothing but wait.

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-16 Thread Russell Shaw
David Stevenson wrote: On 12/16/05, *Morten Nilsen* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essien Ita Essien wrote: As for edc's being in XML format... I have one response *ugh*. XML is unnecessarily verbose for the kind of thing edje is trying to

Re: [E-devel] Understanding Faces

2005-12-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Morten Nilsen wrote: Essien Ita Essien wrote: Now I'm going to go off an cry in private ;) Seriously though, I'm one of those with the ancient *curse of understanding*... yes Sir!!! I absolutely must be able to fit the whole concept in my brain else I'm parallised. Upside is... once its

Re: Help using bison

2005-12-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Rossi wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:22:29PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Bob Rossi wrote: Hi All, I'm writing a GPL'd ncurses front end to GDB, called CGDB. Did you know gdb already has a curses frontend? gdb -tui In particular, according to this webpage, it seems like I'm

Re: How to remove -O2 on Makefile generated by autoconf/make

2005-11-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Feng QIN wrote: Hello all, When I use autoconf/automake tools to generate makefile for my package, the CXXFLAGS is always added -O2 by tools, while I don't want to use for debuging. Is it possible to remove it from options of configure command or some other ways better than removing it manually

Re: [avr-libc-dev] Question on Optimizations with Linking

2005-11-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin O'Flynn wrote: Hello, This came out of the discussion with avr-libc about itoa: Would it be a reasonable idea to change the optimization strategy for linking around a bit? Right now for example we already have a few options for printf, and now are looking at different options for itoa.

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Best practice for external variable (newbie-ish question)

2005-11-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Matthew Smith wrote: Hi David snip / The only time I use extern is for prototyping in #include files. Even so, the variable has to be declared somewhere without extern and outside of a function in order to create the allocation. Make sure you #include the prototype file in the source file

Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: [avr-gcc-list] Poll: Who uses itoa() co with base != {2, 8, 10, 16}?

2005-11-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Anton Erasmus wrote: ..., so I'm inclined to replace the existing itoa() family by Dmitry's submission. When doing so, I'll probably rename the existing implementations to itoa_full() etc. to preserve them in case anyone really needs that functionality. Opinions?

Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: [avr-gcc-list] Poll: Who uses itoa() co with base != {2, 8, 10, 16}?

2005-11-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:20, Russell Shaw wrote: I'd rather use something like #define _USE_FULL_ITOA #include stdlib.h ... itoa(x, s, 13); That won't save any library space tho. If the reduced version is faster and saves a lot of space, then it could be worthwhile

Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: [avr-gcc-list] Poll: Who uses itoa() co with base != {2, 8, 10, 16}?

2005-11-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:04, Russell Shaw wrote: It will if it's implemented correctly, eg in stdlib.h #ifdef _USE_FULL_ITOA #define itoa _itoa_full #else #define itoa _itoa_small #endif Even if functions are unused in a library that is linked, don't they still end up

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Best practice for external variable (newbie-ish question)

2005-11-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Matthew Smith wrote: Hi All I am writing a small programme where I need a couple of variables to be accessible to various routines, including an ISR. I have declared the variables in the main body of the programme as volatile, as I believe that this is required for access by the ISR: volatile

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Best practice for external variable (newbie-ish question)

2005-11-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Matthew Smith wrote: Hi All I am writing a small programme where I need a couple of variables to be accessible to various routines, including an ISR. I have declared the variables in the main body of the programme as volatile, as I believe that this is required for access by the ISR: volatile

Colormaps

2005-10-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, Is there any set standard for the colors in a default colormap installed by the window manager? Where can i find the spec? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list

Re: A notebook for Debian?

2005-10-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Beware that many IBMs don't have touch-pads. So, what do they have in its place? Rodolfo Mouse buttons and stick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A notebook for Debian?

2005-10-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Rob Smith wrote: On Sunday 23 October 2005 5:03 am, Florian Ludwig wrote: I'm using a old IBM Thinkpad T21. Everything works realy fine! IBM was the only only company providing good Linux support for thier laptops but now Lenovo.. I dont know. I realy recommend to buy a Thinkpad for running

Re: A notebook for Debian?

2005-10-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Florian Ludwig wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: I'm using a second-hand 1GHz Dell Lattitude C610 with DVD R/W and everything works in debian (i haven't tried the modem or IR). Beware that many IBMs don't have touch-pads. Right, and everytime i sitting in front of a notebook with a touchpad i

Re: [avr-libc-dev] Automated testing project

2005-10-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Peeter Vois wrote: I've been reading code of both approaches and would like to say my first blick opinion: Simulavr has much higher quality source code, it is understandable and well commented. Simulavrxxx is hard to understand and not well commented. Yes, perhaps.

Re: so, is this claim about pango still true? or does nobody actually care?

2005-10-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel Kasak wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: I don't care how much tedious rendering pango does; if a gui isn't lightning fast on a 100MHz pentium (or 25MHz 386 for that matter), it's fundamentally broken in either or both design and implementation. Oh come on! A pentium 100? That's what you're

Re: so, is this claim about pango still true? or does nobody actually care?

2005-10-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Daniel Kasak wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: ... I'm using a pentium 166 as a dedicated mozilla machine among a few other things. Correction: 266MHz (with 64MB ram) But that is very sluggish because of ram swapping when running mozilla. In a typical gtk window with a dozen

Re: so, is this claim about pango still true? or does nobody actually care?

2005-10-13 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this still true? does anybody care? is there a way to avoid pango entirely and still get AA fonts inside GTK2? will this ever be fixed before everyone is using h/w acceleration to print button labels? the issue raised here will *kill* ardour dead, and would force us

Re: DevHelp usability

2005-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Krzysztof Foltman wrote: I wrote this mail responding to reaction for my suggestion about how to make DevHelp more usable for keyboard users. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118358 Because there was no significant usability-wise progress in DevHelp since 2003, I'll try to give some

Re: Moving from XFree to xorg with Debian sid

2005-09-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Alexander wrote: I have a Thinkpad T40 (ATI Rad M9 1400x1050 panel) Debian system tracking sid. AFAIK I should be running Debian's version of XFree rel 4.3.0. dpkg -l |grep xfree xfree86-common6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System infrastructure transitional

Re: [avr-gcc-list] OT Generic C question

2005-09-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Trampas wrote: I was helping a friend debug some code, he is new to C, using the Keil version of GCC for ARM. Anyway I found the following: int i; i=0; i=i++; //i was still zero that That is i=i++ never incremented i, now I would have thought the line would be the same as: i=i; i=i+1;

wm-spec hardcopy

2005-09-17 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, Where can i get a pdf of the wm-spec? http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html#id2452481 ___ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list

Re: wm-spec hardcopy

2005-09-17 Thread Russell Shaw
Elijah Newren wrote: On 9/17/05, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where can i get a pdf of the wm-spec? Run wget http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.xml xmlto pdf wm-spec-1.4.xml Cheers, Elijah Hi, I just installed the latest tex/pdf tools on debian sid

Re: Fwd: Hooking

2005-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Tim Roberts wrote: ramalingareddy bommalapura wrote: Can anybody please suggest how hooking can be done in the xserver functions. XServer needs to invoke my function before the call is passed to the XServer original function. I have found that this is the procedure in windows for

Re: canvas notes

2005-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Havoc Pennington wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 09:53 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: * OpenGL Any thoughts on that 3D vs. 2D thing? i.e. it seems like we want to be able to mix OpenGL and Cairo at will, but it isn't clear to me what that really means. Kind of a similar question to is a

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: [avr-libc-dev] RFD: more avr-libc API changes

2005-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Zane D. Purvis wrote: Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Matthew MacClary wrote: (About whether to keep avr/interrupt.h or avr/signal.h after merging their contents.) My suggestion would be to change INTERRUPT to be the same as SIGNAL, and then deprecate SIGNAL. How about changing the name to

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Debug with AVRStudio4?

2005-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: Torleif Sandnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your problem may be that you are compiling with optimization on. Try to use -O0 instead of -Os, -O1 or whatever you are using. But of course, he'll debug an entirely different program then. My own experience says that it's best to

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: [avr-libc-dev] Please have a look at avr-libc patch #3750

2005-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: As Joerg Wunsch wrote: -in stdio.h: #define STDIO_SETUP(stream,buf,put,get,flags) FILE stream={buf,\ 0,\ flags,\ sizeof(buf),\ 0,\ put,\ get} That might

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Please have a look at avr-libc patch #3750

2005-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: Patch URL: https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitemitem_id=3750 Almost unnoticed went that patch that has been contributed by Ted Roth, at a time when he had already `retired' from the project. My only concern about it is that it would constitute an API change

[avr-libc-dev] Re: [avr-gcc-list] Please have a look at avr-libc patch #3750

2005-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: Patch URL: https://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitemitem_id=3750 Almost unnoticed went that patch that has been contributed by Ted Roth, at a time when he had already `retired' from the project. My only concern about it is that it would constitute an API change

Re: [avr-gcc-list] SIGNAL or INTERRUPT ?!

2005-09-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Vincent Trouilliez wrote: INTERRUPT re-enable the interrupts of the AVR, before to run you service routine. SIGNAL run your service routine with interrupts disabled, no new event can reenter your code before the service routine as finished. Probably you should use SIGNAL. Thanks chaps, it's

Re: [avr-gcc-list] SIGNAL or INTERRUPT ?!

2005-09-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: Vincent Trouilliez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for the life of me, I can't see anywhere in the rest of the interrupt section, a single word to explain what the difference between the two macros is, and their respective purpose/goal. You can't? Hmm, just compare the

Re: [avr-libc-dev] User-visible library version numbers

2005-08-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Joerg Wunsch wrote: It has been requested every now and then that there be a user-visible library version number. I'm about to start this with the impending release of the 1.4 branch, so here are a few questions. What to put in there? . __AVR_LIBC_VERSION__ 1.4.0 /* a string */ .

AM_CONDITIONAL

2005-08-14 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In configure.in, i have: AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_GTK_DOC, test x$enable_gtk_doc = xyes) and it gets turned into: if test x$enable_gtk_doc = xyes; then ENABLE_GTK_DOC_TRUE= ENABLE_GTK_DOC_FALSE='#' else ENABLE_GTK_DOC_TRUE='#' ENABLE_GTK_DOC_FALSE= fi Isn't this backward? When

Pango docs

2005-08-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I compiled pango. How do i turn the stuff in pango/docs/ in to some kind of manual? ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list

Re: [avr-chat] Mega128/jtagice problem.

2005-07-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Andy Warner wrote: I have a project based on the mega128, and I'm having strange problems when I use the jtag port for programming. The summary is that it doesn't seem to come out of reset correctly after programming, but the part is programmed correctly and if I then manually cause a reset or

Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-21 Thread Russell Shaw
S. Massy wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the shadow of a problem. Now, however, things have changed for the very worse... Are you burning at a speed that matches the disc?

Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-21 Thread Russell Shaw
S. Massy wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the shadow of a problem. Now, however, things have changed for the very worse... Are you burning at a speed that matches the disc?

Re: Best network manager

2005-07-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen wrote: tir, 19 07 2005 kl. 08:57 -0700, skrev Bill Moseley: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:47:55AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: For your wireless one, you'll use either waproamd or wpa_supplicant. When I'm away from my home lan I create an ssh tunnel from localhost port

Re: find -ok ... and reading from stdin

2005-07-18 Thread Russell Shaw
James Youngman wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:37:19AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I haven't used the -ok feature, so this is only my guess of what should happen. If find is fed with a pipe for stdin, questions asked by -ok should open a new file descriptor for the controlling tty

Re: How will cairo influence GTK's performance?

2005-07-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel Campos wrote: Pango seems to be quite slow, I agree with that... Clemens Eisserer escribió: Wouldn't it have something to do with client-side rendering the fonts then shipping all those pixels to the server? ___ gtk-list mailing list

Re: find -ok ... and reading from stdin

2005-07-17 Thread Russell Shaw
James Youngman wrote: The -ok command ... {} \; action of find asks the user if they want to run the command, but it otherwise almost exactly like -exec. When the command is run, should its standard input be attached to the same file as find's standard input (e.g. the input file or pipe from

Re: Some notes on the Wiki

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Joseph S. Myers wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Michael Cieslinski wrote: I also could convert parts of the ggcinternals manual into wiki pages. But only if there is a consensus about this being the way to go. I'm sure it's the wrong way to go. I find a properly formatted and indexed book far

Re: overheat

2005-07-10 Thread Russell Shaw
wout wrote: Dear sirs, I have trouble configuring acpi on my asus L2000 laptop. My laptop continuously gets to 109 degrees and then switches off when compiling anything large. I think it is due to the fact that it does not use the active state of cooling. Where should I configure this, as

Re: Controlling which modules are loaded at boot

2005-07-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Doofus wrote: Dell Inspiron sarge/2.4.27 Not strictly a laptop question this, but... The last time I spent my quality time playing with debian this subject mostly came down to the contents of /etc/modules. I've just compiled a new kernel and although it's highly modular and I've emptied

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