Re: gEDA-user: gschem/gnetlist potentiometers

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

>gnetlist is having trouble with potentiometers defined by gschem,
>calling it an unknown component. It's possible that I corrupted it, but


	Are you using the spice-sdb gnetlist backend?


>new pots give similar results. gschem is version 20030525, and gnetlist
>is too.  The .sch snippet is:
>
>C 30200 58300 1 90 0 resistor-variable-2.sym
>{
>T 29550 58900 5 10 1 1 0 0
>refdes=R18
>T 29700 58500 5 10 1 1 0 0
>value=1M
>}

	The above netlisted fine for me (using the geda test backend),
but when I used the spice-sdb backend, I got the below message.

>
>....
 ^^^^

	Unfortunately, I cannot read minds (yet), so please post the exact
commands you used to netlist your .sch. :)


>Found unknown component.  Refdes = R18
>

	Note, the pot did get into the netlist, but most likely not in
a form that your spice simulator expects.

	Just based on looking at the backend code, spice-sdb doesn't
know anything about "VARIABLE_RESISTOR"s.  Is there a workaround or
solution for this Stuart?  Thank you.

>
>My apologies if this has been addressed on the list before. A pity the
>archives aren't searchable. 
>

	What about:

http://geda.seul.org/search.html	

	I have now added a link to this from the mailing list page.  

								-Ales