[PD] HID object, woes.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Wed Jun 15 17:52:36 CEST 2005
First off, I have to say, El Lechero looks very nice. I am eagerly
awaiting seeing it in action.
Upon re-reading this email, I am not entirely sure what I changed in
0.6 to fix it. ( I have some guesses). Is the slow, cludginess
totally gone?
Is your Desktop running a 2.4 kernel and your laptop a 2.6 kernel?
.hc
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:44 AM, august wrote:
>
> Hans,
>
> firstly, thanks a million for the hid device. it's something that is
> really appreciated.
>
> ...however, I am having some difficulties using it.
>
> I just built a USB device which you can see here:
>
> http://aug.ment.org/lechero
>
> I was about to present it yesterday, but was having some major
> problems with the [hid] object. I tested and built a patch with [hid]
> input on a desktop machine running gentoo, and it was working
> *perfectly*
> - fast, stable and clean. I had it running all day and was editing a
> running other patches at the same time. however, on my laptop running
> ubuntu, it was slow and cludgy, no matter how I set the polling. Whats
> also strange about this is that I changed the enumeration on my device
> so
> that 13 axis that I have show up properly in the registered abs_x,
> abs_y,
> etc. that you have in the 0.5 hid version. With the new enumeration, I
> can get [hid] to run and work perfectly on my desktop, however with the
> same code and with the same device, it crashes PD immediately when I
> turn
> the [hid] object on on my laptop. [a simple (if !=null) statement
> that I
> sent the other day will keep it from segfaulting, however. I just
> find it
> curious how it works on one machine but doesn't on another - I don't
> know
> much about USB]
>
> so, for the presentation that was scheduled, I needed a working
> solution on a laptop, ...and since everyone around me uses a mac, and
> since I thought you were developing [hid] for the mac, I decided to
> try it
> there. I downloaded your installer for PD with the hid object
> included,
> but to my surprise, the situation was even worse on the mac - the
> response
> from the [hid] object is _very_ slow and _very_ cludgy. I tried it on
> a
> coupla different macs, but got the same situ. In desperation I tried
> to
> set something up quick using supercollider on the mac, but the
> HIDdevice
> there was even worse.
>
> I'd like to help debug if possible, but I don't really know where
> to start.
>
> thats my hid story so far.
>
> -august.
>
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