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. 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. 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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
