[PD] Freebsd port

[Karl MacMillan]

On Mon, 14 May 2001, CK wrote:

> I read:
> > I have ported PD to FreeBSD 4.3 (if you can call fixing a few compilation
> > issues porting).  It runs quite well on my laptop, but I will make no
> > garuntees that it will run on anything else.  There are some issues:
>
> did anyone who has access to an osx box try to compile it there ?
>

I haven't tried this (I do have an osx box) because the sound system is
quite a bit different.  Other than this, my assumption is that it will
compile fairly easily.

> > 1) Full-duplex does not work and locks up my system.  This is either a
> >    problem with the soundcard driver or the OSS emulation.
>
> did you succeed with any other app opening /dev/dsp rw ?
> then you could give d13b's piperead~/write~ objects a try, though they
> won't exactly lower the latency times ;), I'm currently using this to
> run pd on a machine wo any soundhardware.
>

I also wrote a minimul full-duplex test program using the native freebsd
audio api (which is refreshingly simple and well thought out).  It also
rebooted the system.  My assumption is that there is a bug in the drivers.

Karl

>
> regards
>
> x
>
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