[PD] Can't get PD/RME9652 even close to working

[Miller Puckette]

HI Nick,

Well, "pd -rme" and "./configure  --enable-rme" are both to use Ritch's
driver.  But "rme96xx" Is Guenter Geiger's newer, OSS driver for RME.
Therefore you don't have to flag ./configure and the correct invocation is
indeed "pd -inchannels 8 -outchannels 8"..

I'm grasping at straws here, but are you sure the es1371 module was
loaded _after_ the rme96xx one?  Otherwise Pd is trying to open your
es1371.  Perhaps there's some reason it can't do 8 channels that way.

Even if not, what does just "pd" do? 

bon courage,
Miller

> 
> > ./configure  --enable-rme
> 
> Also fine.
> 
> > start pd *without* option -rme, e.g.
> 
> The documentation says that "-rme" is to use Ritch's 9652
> driver. Isn't this what we're doing?
> 
> > pd -inchannels 8 -outchannels 8
> 
> Doesn't work. It launches, sometimes gives me
> 
> 	OSS: requested audio buffer size 14112 limited to 4096
> 
> (are we supposed to be using OSS at all?) and then just says
> 
> 	Pd: system call timed out
> 
> at which stage it's essentially dead; the GUI thread is running but
> nonfunctional.
> 
> Specifying "-verbose" suggests that this is coming from OSS.
> 
> So I try "pd -verbose -rme" and get as far as "RME open" before it
> just fails in the way I described (failing to find the entries in
> /dev).
> 
> Aside: comment from Andreas Poegl (I think: the PD list archive is out
> of date so I can't see the details) about the path settings for
> rme96xx: nope. The Makefile is broken since (in Red Hat 7.1) the first
> line of version.h is now a #include, not a definition of UTS_RELEASE.
> 
> Oh, and the xrmectrl program still appears nonfunctional.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong? At this stage I'm thinking
> of completely giving up on PD as a viable option for this project.
> 
> -- 
> 
>             Nick Rothwell                  Cassiel.com Limited
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