Olivia problems noticed in 3.20.0b9:

- Sometimes on switching to Olivia from another mode a huge number
appears in the audio frequency window below the waterfall. I have seen
"-1127217" more than once. This is accompanied sometimes by an erratic
waterfall display and "Sound Error...." messages. The waterfall cursor
is in the expected place. Clicking in the waterfall corrects the
frequency display, the erratic waterfall and  "sound error" messages.
(This might not be unique to Olivia, which is the mode I use most, but I
have never seen it when switching to a different mode).


- The s/n estimation appears to be flawed. Although the numbers are as
expected using an Rx filter similar to the FFT bandwidth, if a narrow Rx
filter is switched in the reading changes, sometimes dramatically.

For instance, with no signal present (just atmospheric noise on a "dead"
band, with Rx AGC off to prevent noise density varying with IF
bandwidth) and a 3600Hz FFT bandwidth, the following s/n readings are
seen as a function of Rx IF bandwidth:

3000Hz  -13dB
2000Hz  -12dB
1000Hz   -12dB
750Hz    -11dB
500Hz    Rises steadily til it limits at +30dB!

Note the 500Hz figure! The s/n with a 500Hz DSP filter always settles at
+30dB, regardless of actual s/n or indeed whether there's a signal there.

The figures for wider bandwidths are approximate as they're averaged by eye.

Is the out-of-band noise being used in the s/n estimate? The above
figures do suggest that is the case. This behaviour is not seen in MFSK,
which gives bandwidth-independent s/n estimates as expected.


- 3.20.0b9 has crashed once on switching to Olivia mode (from MFSK32 to
Olivia 500/16 in this case). I have seen similar crashes in earlier
versions. Console output shown below. (Xubuntu V9.10, fully patched to
01April2010, portaudio, IC-7200 using internal USB):


-- 
Peter
G4VLC


Crash on selecting Olivia:

Caught signal 11
Aborting fldigi due to a fatal error.
Please report this to:   [email protected]
or file a bug report at: https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/newticket

****** Stack trace:
fldigi[0x81296fc]
[0xc0d400]
fldigi[0x813d286]
fldigi[0x81412a7]
fldigi[0x813b924]
fldigi[0x8181d46]
fldigi[0x818331d]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0[0x38080e]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0x8828de]

****** Version information:
fldigi 3.20.0b9
Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Dave Freese, Stelios Bounanos, Leigh Klotz, and
others.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

****** Build information:
Build information:
  built          : Tue Mar 30 23:50:26 BST 2010 by r...@g4vlc-desktop on
i686-pc-linux-gnu for i686-pc-linux-gnu

  configure flags:

  compiler       : gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9)

  compiler flags : -I$(srcdir) -I$(srcdir)/include -I$(srcdir)/irrxml
-I$(srcdir)/fileselector -pthread -I/usr/include/freetype2
-D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include -pipe
-Wall -fexceptions -O2 -ffast-math -finline-functions -DNDEBUG

  linker flags   : -lportaudio -lasound -lm -lpthread
-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -lfltk_images -lfltk -lX11 -lsndfile
-lsamplerate -lhamlib -lm -lpng12 -L/usr/lib -lxmlrpc_server_abyss++
-lxmlrpc_server++ -lxmlrpc_server_abyss -lxmlrpc_server -lxmlrpc_abyss
-lpthread -lxmlrpc++ -lxmlrpc -lxmlrpc_util -lxmlrpc_xmlparse
-lxmlrpc_xmltok -ldl -lrt -lpthread

  libraries      : FLTK 1.1.9
                   libsamplerate 0.1.7
                   libsndfile 1.0.20
                   PortAudio 19
                   Hamlib 1.2.10
                   XMLRPC-C 1.06.27


Runtime information:
  system         : Linux g4vlc-desktop 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP
Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686

  libraries      : libsamplerate-0.1.7 (c) 2002-2008 Erik de Castro Lopo
                   libsndfile-1.0.20
                   PortAudio V19-devel (built Jun 20 2009 13:28:51) 1899
                   Hamlib 1.2.10

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