[PD] problem getting sound to work on old laptop

[Josh Steiner]

(sorry for the off topic-ness)

hey fellow pd'ers,  a friend of mine had an old pentium 90 laptop 
sitting in his closet gathering dust.  aparently the battery still 
works, so he gave it to me.  i'm planning on building a small portable 
sound installation piece with it running pd.  it has windows on it now, 
so i thought i'd try to muck with pd to see how much processing i'm 
going to be able to sqeeze out of it, but i'm not having any luck.  I'm 
hoping some of you might have experience wrestling with windows 98 on a 
"vintage" system ;-P

below is the error message, for some reason pd can't get ahold of the 
audio device and i dont have any other programs running.  winamp also 
complains for the same reasons.  the device manager says the sound 
driver is up and working just fine, i've heard windows make its startup 
sound so it defintitely works.   i didabled windows action sounds, and 
still no luck.  i'm kind of at a loss here so any advice or ideas would 
be helpful :)

if i can't get this going i'll try putting linux on this sucker and see 
how that goes... which i should probably do anyhow :)

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\n\pd\bin>pd -listdev
MIDI input device #1: ESS MIDI Port Input (220)
MIDI output device #1: ESS MIDI Port Output (220)
MIDI output device #2: ESS FM Synthesis
audio input device #1: ESS AudioDrive Record (220)
audio output device #1: ESS AudioDrive Playback (220)
not using MIDI input (use 'pd -midiindev 1' to override)
Wave out open device -1 + 0
waveOutOpen device: MMSYSTEM004 The specified device is already in use. 
Wait unt
il it is free, and then try again.
C:/WINDOWS/DESKTOP/N/PD

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\n\pd\bin>pd -nogui
not using MIDI input (use 'pd -midiindev 1' to override)
Wave out open device -1 + 0
waveOutOpen device: MMSYSTEM004 The specified device is already in use. 
Wait unt
il it is free, and then try again.

 
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