Re: gEDA-user: PCB launchpad bugs to mailinglist

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: It is nice to have the geda bugs reported on launchpad mirrored in the mailing list. Can we this also be done for PCB bugs, please? We already do this, but PCB bugs have their own list. Subscribe to pcb-b...@lists.sourceforge.net. How would I do that (with my news

Re: gEDA-user: PCB head fails with ***MEMORY-ERROR***

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas Oldbury
This might explain my problem with PCB+GL maybe it's just a general problem with PCB? I have noticed that PCB can eat up about 3 GB after a few hours of routing. On 3 June 2011 14:41, Kai-Martin Knaak [1]kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Andrew Poelstra wrote: Use gdb to

Re: gEDA-user: PCB launchpad bugs to mailinglist

2011-06-03 Thread DJ Delorie
How would I do that (with my news server)? You probably can't. Most mailing lists are not mirrored to news servers. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: geda master attributes list: spaces in ‘device’ value?

2011-06-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
There seems to be a contradiction in the description of the ‘device’ attribute on the wiki master_attributes_list [1]. Do not put spaces into the device name; there are some programs which dislike spaces in the device specifier. Generally the device name is in all caps. Examples: device=7400

gEDA-user: import schematics with local footprints

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
With the traditional gsch2pcb work-flow I use project files to tell the system which footprints to use (and which not to use). For example: /-timer_proto.g2p-- schematics timer_proto.sch output-name timer_proto skip-m4 verbose elements-dir /home/kmk/geda/footprints use-files

Re: gEDA-user: import schematics with local footprints

2011-06-03 Thread DJ Delorie
No, you're doing it right. Run PCB and open the library window. Do you see your footprints there? Do the names in square brackets match the footprint attributes? Those are the key things to using the importer. The most likely newbie mistake is pointing your local libraries one level too far

Re: gEDA-user: import schematics with local footprints

2011-06-03 Thread Felipe De la Puente Christen
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:27 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: No, you're doing it right. Run PCB and open the library window. Do you see your footprints there? Do the names in square brackets match the footprint attributes? Those are the key things to using the importer. I remember myself

gEDA-user: ‘symversion’ documentation update

2011-06-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
The ‘symversion’ attribute's documentation says that this attribute should not be placed on new symbols, but only (1) on symbols “accepted into the main gEDA symbol library”, and even then (2) only when a change is made to the symbol. I always add symversion=1.0 to my custom symbols because (1)

Re: gEDA-user: PCB head fails with ***MEMORY-ERROR***

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 03:41:41PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: This seems to be a memory leak problem. I noted, that memory usage goes way up on rats optimization until it hits the ceiling (memory and swap used 100%). See the system log I attached to the lauchpad bug report.

Re: gEDA-user: ‘symversion’ documentation update

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: The ‘symversion’ attribute's documentation says that this attribute should not be placed on new symbols, but only (1) on symbols “accepted into the main gEDA symbol library”, and even then (2) only when a change is made to the symbol. I have asked about this before on

Re: gEDA-user: ‘symversion’ documentation update

2011-06-03 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:32:46 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Colin D Bennett wrote: I always add symversion=1.0 to my custom symbols because (1) Unfortunately, I did not since a few months ago. Now, that I started using the symversion gschem throws unnecessary

gEDA-user: gEDA with Guile 2.0

2011-06-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi folks, I've just checked in some changes that enable gEDA to compile and run with Guile 2.0. Please report any issues. Currently, the only known problem is that the `drc2' gnetlist backend is broken. Regards, Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA with Guile 2.0

2011-06-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
Currently, the only known problem is that the `drc2' gnetlist backend is broken. This is now fixed, and there are no known issues with using the gEDA main development branch with Guile 2.0. Peter -- Peter Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey

Re: gEDA-user: ‘symversion’ documentation update

2011-06-03 Thread John Doty
On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: Is ‘device’ used for simulation purposes? In at least some flows, yes. The spice-sdb back end to gnetlist attempts to determine if it needs to prepend a key letter to the device to select the correct SPICE primitive. You can turn this

Re: gEDA-user: import schematics with local footprints

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: No, you're doing it right. Run PCB and open the library window. Do you see your footprints there? yes. Do the names in square brackets match the footprint attributes? What square bracket? Yes, I have the footprint attributes set correctly. The traditional gsch2pcb

Re: gEDA-user: PCB head fails with ***MEMORY-ERROR***

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Andrew Poelstra wrote: The problem happens in the loop in rats.c, lines 766-784. That was quick! I hope, this issue is resolved soon. ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53

Re: gEDA-user: PCB launchpad bugs to mailinglist

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: Subscribe to pcb-b...@lists.sourceforge.net. How would this exactly be done? I sent an email to the above address with subject subscribe. An automatically sent reply asked for a confirmation that my email address is valid, which I did. I'll wait for pcb bug reports to

Re: gEDA-user: PCB launchpad bugs to mailinglist

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: How would I do that (with my news server)? You probably can't. Most mailing lists are not mirrored to news servers. Someone has to ask kindly at gmane.org to include the mailinglist to their usenet service. I just filed the application form. Let's see if they

Re: gEDA-user: geda master attributes list: spaces in ‘device’ value?

2011-06-03 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: There seems to be a contradiction in the description of the ‘device’ attribute on the wiki master_attributes_list [1]. Do not put spaces into the device name; there are some programs which dislike spaces in the device specifier. Generally the device name is in all

Re: gEDA-user: import schematics with local footprints

2011-06-03 Thread DJ Delorie
What square bracket? In the library window, at the end of each M4 footprint's description, is the string to use for footprint= in brackets, like [0603]. For file-based footprints, you of course use the file name. But for generic footprint names like 0805 the import action chooses the