[PD] total newbie question (os X configuration related)

[lee]

Anthony Saunders wrote:

> hopefully this isn't a horrifically annoying post to the list regulars, 
> but I'm trying to configure PD on a 500 mhz G3 iBook, running OS X 
> 10.3.4; I just installed TclTkAquaBI-8.4.6.1 and I managed to get PD 
> running well enough to have the Hello World patch run.
> 
> However, so far I've gotten these error messages:
> 
> Error number -9997 occured opening portaudio stream
> Error message: Invalid device ID.
> 2004-06-29 22:51:41.421 Wish Shell[4293] CFLog (0):
>         CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data 
> is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
>         Contents/Info.plist -- file://localhost/Applications/iCal.app/
>         The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be 
> corrected in the plist.
> Error number -9997 occured opening portaudio stream
> Error message: Invalid device ID.
> RCNE SendEventToEventTarget (mous Moved               ) failed, -50

Yeah, that's weird. This line is particularly interesting:
 >         Contents/Info.plist -- file://localhost/Applications/iCal.app/
It looks like iCal is interfereing with PD.

On the audio input tip, have you actually used the internal mic to 
record something in another application? Also, have you tried to launch 
PD directly from the terminal?

-lee