[PD] Linux: changing sound card params from patch, sending OS commands

[Georg Holzmann]

Hallo!

>    1. It's a long story but the bottom line is that it appears that I
>       have to use this crappy computer as well as its less-than-steller
>       internal sound card, and that the internal sound card or driver
>       has some sort of bug which requires me to switch to ALSA *after*
>       starting Pd. Everything else produces no sound. And OSS is
>       completely inoperative. So is there a way I can do this in a
>       patch? (The sound card is a Yamaha OPL3-SA23 BTW.)
I guess you already tried pd -alsa ...

>    2. I'd like Pd to be able to send commands to the OS such as shutdown
>       -h "now" when the gallery closes each evening. Is there a way to
>       send such commands from a patch? The only thing I could think to
>       do is send a message to a Python script using sockets....seems
>       rather clumsy.
you can also use the [shell] external ...
or you could write a cron job out of pd ...

LG
Georg