[Pd] AGNULA buggy

[Chuckk Hubbard]

btw, I dumped AGNULA now in favor of Debian, and my problems vanished.

On 7/14/06, dafydd hughes <dafydd at sideshowmedia.ca> wrote:
> Hey Chuckk
>
> My knowledge is patchy, and it's likely some folks can give you better
> advice here, but here's what I have to offer, as a DeMuDi user for
> several years...
>
> All your latency settings are done in Jack, and you should have no
> problem getting the same or better performance out of Agnula than
> Windows.  Make sure "realtime" is on in Jack setup (this makes a huge
> difference), and make sure you have decent buffer sizes.  I think my
> P4 2.4 can get less than 6 ms latency with no troubles.
>
> Make sure you start pd with the -rt and -jack flags.
>
> I sometimes get clicks when editing, but that's all.  Also, I think
> DeMuDi stable has an oldish version of pd.  You might consider
> compiling 0.39.  DeMuDi unstable is more up to date.
>
> And to make matters worse, Ubuntu has a really good Pd package, and
> while Agnula's easy to install, Ubuntu's _really_ easy to install.
> The only thing is you don't get the realtime kernel, but Frank will
> tell you you don't really need it with more recent kernel versions,
> and I agree, at least in the case of my PC.  (thanks Frank)
>
> Hope this helps, and I hope I'm not saying a bunch of stuff you already know.
>
> cheers
> dafydd
>
> On 7/14/06, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just installed AGNULA DeMudi Linux on my 2nd hard drive, so that I
> > now have WinXP on the first HD, OSX on a G3, and Linux on the slave
> > drive in the Windows box, and PD running on all three.  I'm hoping to
> > gain experience in all three OSs.
> >
> > I'm finding DeMudi really buggy though.  I guess it's just the little
> > things I've learned to work out in Windows but not here.  At times,
> > using Jack, the Jack icon goes red and I get a bunch of DIO errors in
> > Pd, and I find that I can no longer use any of the menu options in Pd.
> >  Obviously I'd like to avoid this, but I tried it again and can't
> > reproduce it.
> > When it happened, I closed and restarted Pd (thankfully I wasn't
> > actually working on anything) and in the Jack connections, the old
> > instance of Pd remained in the MIDI tab.
> >
> > Also, my latency is higher than in Windows.  Pd starts up set to 50,
> > and by the time I have Jack, Pd, and Ardour open, I'm getting errors,
> > even with no patches open.
> > Is this common?  Are there settings I don't know about, or is Linux
> > inferior to Windows in this regard?
> >
> > There are other times programs just don't start when selected in
> > Linux, and right now I have the Jack control open but the icon for it
> > has disappeared.  I've installed this same Linux distro 3 times in the
> > last day due to various problems.  It's the latest "stable" DeMudi,
> > with kernel 2.6.12-3.
> >
> > -Chuckk
> >
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