Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

[Aleksandar Ilic]

On Friday 29 March 2002 02:13, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> I just uploaded version 0.4 of gMFSK to hes.iki.fi.

Hello, Tomi and the list !

If I start gMFSK from KDE, it is working - except I can not type from 
keyboard in the transmit window. I can copy and paste text in it, but 
keyboard is dead.
From GNOME, all is OK.
I suppose you'll be interested about that.

Keep up a good work ! gMFSK is a very usefull piece of software.
Kindly,
Alek
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Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

[Wilbert Knol]

I have the source RPM installed and running now, on a Mdk 8.1 distro, 
KDE desktop, and it appears to be working very nicely.

Initially, gMSFK complained about read errors from the sound device. I 
tried re-assigning DMA channels from the BIOS, and updating the OSS 
module accordingly, but it went from read errors to write errors to a full 
system freeze :-(

The fix was to ditch OSS for the ALSA drivers, and all is well now. I am 
using a Toshiba laptop and the Yamaha sound system has always been a 
bit tricky to get going.

Anyway, the KDE sound server does a pretty good job of sharing the 
sound system between apps, I am going to try to record a sound bite of 
transmitted audio into a file, and re-play it, to see what the transmitted 
spectrum looks like. I am really intrigued by the MFSK, which sounds like 
a mix  between a flute and bag-pipes on fast-forward.

A question: I would like to extract PTT from a USB serial adapter, but the 
device file for it doesn't show up in the pick list of gMFSK. Can I safely 
add a symlink to the USB device file and call it, say /dev/ttyS99?

Wilbert, ZL2BSJ

Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

[Tomi Manninen]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Wilbert Knol wrote:

> A question: I would like to extract PTT from a USB serial adapter, but the 
> device file for it doesn't show up in the pick list of gMFSK. Can I safely 
> add a symlink to the USB device file and call it, say /dev/ttyS99?

You can type whatever filename you want in the PTT text entry box. It
doesn't need to be from the list.

I don't have any USB serial converters here but I suppose you could just
type /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/usb/ttyUSB or whatever there. If the USB serial
driver implements the necessary ioctls it should work.

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Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

[Tomi Manninen]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Aleksandar Ilic wrote:

> If I start gMFSK from KDE, it is working - except I can not type from 
> keyboard in the transmit window. I can copy and paste text in it, but 
> keyboard is dead.
> From GNOME, all is OK.
> I suppose you'll be interested about that.

Ok, thanks for the report. It is indeed interesting and bit strange too. 
I'll need to try and see if I can reproduce it here.

> Keep up a good work ! gMFSK is a very usefull piece of software.

Thanks.

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Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

[Tomi Manninen]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Tomi Manninen wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Aleksandar Ilic wrote:
> 
> > If I start gMFSK from KDE, it is working - except I can not type from 
> > keyboard in the transmit window. I can copy and paste text in it, but 
> > keyboard is dead.
> > From GNOME, all is OK.
> 
> Ok, thanks for the report. It is indeed interesting and bit strange too. 
> I'll need to try and see if I can reproduce it here.

I could not reproduce this with KDE but I found another possible cause for
it. Can you check if you have NumLock (or CapsLock or ScrollLock) on when
this happens.

It seems that shortly before releasing 0.4 I added a bug that makes the TX
window ignore keyboard input when any modifiers are on. In fact you can't
even type in CAPITAL letters...

Oh well, I will release 0.4.1 soon with this and another small bug fixed.

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Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

[Aleksandar Ilic]

On Monday 08 April 2002 12:57, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> I could not reproduce this with KDE but I found another possible cause for
> it. Can you check if you have NumLock (or CapsLock or ScrollLock) on when
> this happens.
> It seems that shortly before releasing 0.4 I added a bug that makes the TX
> window ignore keyboard input when any modifiers are on. In fact you can't
> even type in CAPITAL letters...

Yes, that's right indeed ! By accident, NumLock in GNOME was off, for I rare 
use it. KDE is my default, and NumLock is always set on in it.

> Oh well, I will release 0.4.1 soon with this and another small bug fixed.

I'm glad if I help to exterminate this bug, even with such confusing report :)

Kindly,
Alek
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Re: ANN: gMFSK v0.4

[Aleksandar Ilic]

On Monday 08 April 2002 12:57, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> I could not reproduce this with KDE but I found another possible cause for
> it. Can you check if you have NumLock (or CapsLock or ScrollLock) on when
> this happens.
> It seems that shortly before releasing 0.4 I added a bug that makes the TX
> window ignore keyboard input when any modifiers are on. In fact you can't
> even type in CAPITAL letters...

Yes, that's right indeed ! By accident, NumLock in GNOME was off, for I rare 
use it. KDE is my default, and NumLock is always set on in it.

> Oh well, I will release 0.4.1 soon with this and another small bug fixed.

I'm glad if I help to exterminate this bug, even with such confusing report :)

Kindly,
Alek
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