[PD] Alsa/OSS, pd and RME don't like each other

[guenter geiger]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Orm Finnendahl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install pd on an Athlon with Debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 and the
> RME HDSP. Sound works both with oss-compatible apps (xmms, which
> autoloads snd-pcm-oss and snd-timer-oss) as well as with alsa apps. PD
> compiles and works in 0.35-0 and 0.36-10 with the -noaudio option
> (also midi from the RME card works well).
>
> When I try to start with "pd -channels 2 &" the computer freezes
> completely (it prints out a short message about a OSS blocksize
> adjustment to 2048).
>
> The very same setup works without any problems on my laptop.

Are you sure that you have the very same alsa installed ?
Recent ALSA snapshots are known to have broken OSS emulation.

(and it surely is a bug in the driver, because there should be no
way how a application with normal user privileges can freeze a machine,
..)

Guenter