[PD] Quattro on Linux woes

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:

> I have the M-Audio Quattro USB thingie.
> 
> I configured an .asoundrc according to Patrick Shirkey's example on
> alsa-project.org. I can play music with alsaplayer, using the
> quattro1 or quattro2 devices. 
> 
> But I cannot use Pd with any of the alsa-devices in that asoundrc like
> "-alsadev quattro" nor directly with "-alsadev default".
> 
> I'm using the current Debian package 0.36.0-cvs5, but cvs3 didn't
> work, either. Alsa is 0.9rc7. The error I'm getting is:
> 
> ALSA lib pcm_hw:454(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed:
> Broken pipe

A bit more info: 

This problem only is valid on my Acer Travelmate 225xc notebook, as I
found out now. I plugged the Quattro into my main PC, and here Pd
started with "-alsadev hw:3,0" (usb-audio is the third card here) and
played the test tone...

ciao
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