[PD] pd 0.35 test 23 and 26

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Fri Jun 14 04:33:06 CEST 2002


Hi Ben,

I wish I could guess what's wrong here...  it sounds as if Pd is opening
/dev/dsp in some new way, but I'm at a loss to imagine how...  I'll look at
the sources and see if I can guess the difference.

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:04:32PM -0400, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've recently switched my debian system over to SUSE 8. I've noticed 
> quite a strange thing with running PD. On debian I had both test4 and 
> test23 working fine. Now in SUSE I can't get 23 or 26 to work, but test4 
> still works fine. I'm using the exact same OSS/Commercial driver on the 
> same hardware. PD compiles fine.
> 
> When I load test23 or 26 (after running soundon) I get no output to the 
> console. The gui comes up but it seems only the GUI works, no backend. I 
> can click on buttons which react but I can't load a patch, "exit" does not 
> do anything either. This happens both as root and as a normal user. 
> 
> If I run soundoff then test23 and 26 do report not being able to open 
> audio. When PD test 23 & 26 freeze like this they do hold onto the audio 
> device (another process can't open the audio device):
> 
> couldn't open MIDI input device 1
> couldn't open MIDI output device 1
> opened 0 MIDI input device(s) and 0 MIDI output device(s).
> /dev/dsp (writeonly): No such device
> error: OSS: SNDCTL_DSP_CHANNELS failed /dev/dsp
> 
> test4 works fine, as it always did, compiled the same way. Let me know if 
> I can offer any more specific information about my configuration to help 
> resolve this.
> 
> Thanks
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> B. Bogart
> ---------
> 



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