On 01/09/2016 06:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I need > several copies of as part of the control mechanism of a cnc machine > tool. > > Now I would like to translate that to a pcb I can make. >
Try: info pcb "Schematic Frontends" "gEDA" (in a terminal and with pcb-common installed) `?' gives the keypresses for navigating the info manual... > However, its been an exercise best described as the 10,000 monkeys with > typewriters miraculously re-creating Shakespears works. > > The reason? In the help pulldown, the top 3 items that should give one > access to the documentation for the geda suite of programs, do ANAICT > nothing, not even a disk access spike is shown by gkrellm. > sounds like you are missing a -doc package > The complete suite of programs is installed. Is there a .conf file > someplace besides /etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc to set its choice of > browsers to use to display this stuff? iceweasel is the default, > chromium is available, as is konqerer. Resetting the default browser to > each of them in turn has no effect. > > I need some clues as to how to even trace this to see where the failure > is. FWIW, while looking at /etc/gEDA/gschemrc, I did fix it so the > print command worked by adding the cups defined name > as "lp -dNetwork_printer". The default "lpr" apparently sends the job > to /dev/null, or possibly /dev/oblivion? It never gets anywhere near a > cups log. > > The same /usr/share/gEDA directory tree also contains at least 1000 .sym > files, which are what gschem uses to draw the part symbol on the screen, > and all that works, but no handy documentation can be displayed on > command. > > Clues? I seem to have used up mine. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett >
