[PD] Linux newbie, alsa problems

[David NG McCallum]

Frank,

I've got the .asoundrc as they instructed in the ALSA howto for the Quattro.

So am I supposed to do something like "-audiodev q4" or whichever setup 
I want to try?

I was confused about the "OSS Devices" because that's also all that 
shows up in the Media menu option...

<shrug>

David

Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> David NG McCallum hat gesagt: // David NG McCallum wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm trying to migrate my system to Linux and I'm running into some 
>>problems. RH9, Alsa 1.0.0rc2, M-Audio Quattro.
>>
>>I configured PD with --enable-alsa and compiled it. But when I do a 
>>-listdev I'm presented with "OSS Devices".
> 
> 
> listdev does not list alsa devices, but that doesn't mean you cannot
> use alsa devices.
> 
> 
>>Does then mean the Pd is using the OSS emulation in Alsa, is it using 
>>alsa at all? What's going on ?!
>>
>>The quattro does more or less work with alsa in xmms and one of the OSS 
>>Devices does send sound out of the quattro in Pd. But is it through 
>>alsa, or what?
> 
> 
> THis can get a bit tricky, but it will be easier, when Miller will
> reintrocude the option to select alsa devices by name. Here's the
> rundown: 
> 
> To use alsa, you should start Pd with the "-alsa" flag. You also can
> select the card to use by "-audiodev X" where X is the card number
> starting from 1. These options are also available in the "Media" menu.
> Miller intends to also add a -alsadev or -alsaadd option again later.
> 
> This doesn't really work well with the Quattro. For the Q. you should
> first install a so called asoundrc file. You can find it on
> alsa-project.org/doc => Maudio => Quattro, or I could send it to you.
> 
> This defines several virtual PCM devices that map to different
> configurations on the Quattro. The ones to try are called "q4" and
> "q4b". But you cannot use these directly with Pd currently, unless you
> patch the s_audio_alsa.c file like I described on pd-dev or wait a
> moment, until the next Pd version.
> 
> Even then, I didn't make it to have both inputs and outputs available
> with the Quattro in 4-channel mode, yet.
> 
> Here I have another strange problem. Whereas I can use Pd with the
> Quattro in my homebox just fine, Pd on my laptop will crickle and
> crackle in regular intervals unless I set the buffer to "-blocksize
> 2048", which is quite a bit of latency. 
> 
> Does someone have an idea, where this could come from?
> 
> ciao

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