[PD] Audio I/O stuck, win2kpro

[Martin Dupras]

Hi,
 
I'm having the dreaded "audio I/O stuck" problem for the first time.
I've searched the archives to try to find a quick fix, but it seems to
be a recurring problem with no obvious solution. Is that the case?
 
I've got the problem running on two machines: my production machine
(which has a hammerfall9652, no problem until today) and a brand new
Compaq laptop. The problem happens in both cases.
 
On the production machine, I've added some -path and -lib flags to my
the .bat file that launches pd. I'm not quite sure yet which external or
library is actually causing the problem (it may take a while to
troubleshoot, having to restart each time.) After the audio gets stuck,
even if I restart, just launching pd.exe on its own gets "audio I/O
stuck", which I don't understand.
 
What does I/O stuck mean? Does that mean the drivers are hogged by some
other application? Or do I have a bogus 'lock' file somewhere that makes
windows think the driver is in use?
 
Which raises the question: is there a way to explicitly free the driver
right before launching pd? 
 
Thanks!
 
- martin
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