[PD] autoboot in Linux

Pall Thayer palli at pallit.lhi.is
Thu Oct 14 00:13:24 CEST 2004


oh, sorry, that's /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it's a file not a directory so 
you want to append your script to whatever's already in there.

Pall

Pall Thayer wrote:
> Maybe it's trying to run PD before it's initialized some required stuff. 
> How about trying putting you're script in /etc/rc.d/rclocal instead of 
> /etc/init.d ? That way, it won't be run untill after all the normal boot 
> stuff has been initialized.
> 
> Pall
> 
> Sukandar Kartadinata wrote:
> 
>> thanks again
>> just tried that - no difference
>> except that now not even the OSC line shows up
>>
>> Sukandar
>>
>>
>> On 13. Oct 2004, at 23:46 Uhr, Pall Thayer wrote:
>>
>>> Ah... true. But the file you're opening should be prepended with 
>>> -open. I don't see that in your script. Should be:
>>> -open /home/glui/proj/pd/GPlayerStereo.pd
>>>
>>> Pall
>>>
>>> Sukandar Kartadinata wrote:
>>>
>>>> thanks for the reply
>>>> I'll try your suggestion, however I doubt that's the problem. If I 
>>>> understand correctly your command would tell pd to turn on DSP 
>>>> processing. However, as I mentioned, pd doesn't even show up in the 
>>>> process list (ps command) and besides I'm loadbanging [pd dsp 1] 
>>>> within pd.
>>>> Sukandar
>>>> On 13. Oct 2004, at 23:34 Uhr, Pall Thayer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> try adding -send "pd dsp 1"
>>>>>
>>>>> Pall
>>>>>
>>>>> Sukandar Kartadinata wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I'm trying to make a Linux system autoboot a pd patch. Being still 
>>>>>> relatively new to Linux I can't quite figure out what I'm doing 
>>>>>> wrong. Maybe you can help. Here's what I do:
>>>>>> my pd startup script looks like this:
>>>>>> #! /bin/sh
>>>>>> # chkconfig 2345 98 98
>>>>>> # description: starts pd
>>>>>> echo -n "starting pd..."
>>>>>> /usr/bin/pd -nogui -nomidi \
>>>>>> -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/OSC \
>>>>>> -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/zexy \
>>>>>> /home/glui/proj/pd/GPlayerStereo.pd &
>>>>>> I save this as pd_start in /etc/init.d/
>>>>>> then: chkconfig --add pd_start
>>>>>> checking with chkconfig --list shows that it's enabled at run level 3
>>>>>> after reboot no sound nor an an entry in the process list
>>>>>> however /var/etc/messages shows:
>>>>>> Oct 13 22:05:59 digimatrix pd_start: starting pd...
>>>>>> Oct 13 22:05:59 digimatrix pd_start: OSCroute object version 1.05 
>>>>>> by Matt Wright
>>>>>> . pd: jdl Win32 raf.
>>>>>> Oct 13 22:05:59 digimatrix rc: Starting pd_start: succeeded
>>>>>> no mention of zexy being loaded though
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>> Sukandar
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