[PD] autoboot in Linux

[Pall Thayer]

Ah... sounds painfull. In rc.local, you should only need this:

/usr/bin/pd -nogui -nomidi -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/OSC -lib 
/usr/lib/pd/extra/zexy -open /home/glui/proj/pd/GPlayerStereo.pd &

and did you remember to chkconfig --del pd_start ?

Pall

Sukandar Kartadinata wrote:
> OK, that sounds interesting
> I had added a ps command in the startup script just before and after 
> calling pd (to see what's going on) and then I got lots of sound-related 
> error messages interweaved with the process list
> so what you suggest seems to be a step in the right direction
> 
> however, now that I tried rc.local the system hangs at
> 
> <snip>
> Starting anacron:                    [OK]
> Starting atd:                        [OK]
> Starting system message bus:         [OK]
> starting pd...Sample width set to 2 bytes
> _
> 
> 
> and then I can't even get to the login prompt....
> 
> 
> On 14. Oct 2004, at 0:08 Uhr, 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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