[PD] Turning on/off an installation

[Kyle Klipowicz]

Does anyone have a similar workflow for OS X? I am struggling with
this problem right now for an installation I've helped with.(

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~Kyle

On 6/22/07, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:
> Hi Ben, Alexandre,
>
> I think Alex is worried about his file system. The answer is simple:
>
> 1) Mount all drives read-only in /etc/fstab
> 2) Put a startup script so that whenever the machine is booted, it
> starts your patch (check PD archives for this, there was lots of
> discussion. My solution is pasted below***)
> 3) Museum/gallery people can *never* be bothered to learn how to
> start/stop things safely, so if you do the above they can hit the power
> button/turn off the circuitbreaker/pull the plug/do whatever to it every
> night and you shouldn't have any problems. I've run several
> installations in this way before.
>
> best,
> d.
>
> *** I used .xinitrc to start everything:
>
> #~/.xinitrc
> # make sure your system is set up so that X starts when the machine
> boots, and it autologs you as this user!
> # first set LADSPA_PATH for [plugin~]
> # open alsamixer to set soundcard levels
> # make sure jackd isn't running already by killing it
> # start jackd [if PD uses it in your case]
> # start pd [optional: use -open /path/to/installation.patch.pd if it's
> not in your ~/.pdrc or ~/.pdsettings]
>
> export LADSPA_PATH=/usr/lib/ladspa
> fluxbox &
> xterm -exec alsamixer &
> killall jackd &
> jackd -d alsa r 44100 &
> pd
>
> # end ~/.xinitrc
>
> B. Bogart wrote:
>
> > Are you worried about wearing out the HW? (mechanical parts?)
>
> >> The whole idea behind this is to avoid to suddenly turn off
> >> the computer, which would probably corrupt the file system at some
> >> point. Of course I use GNU/Linux : probably Ubuntu Server or Debian.
>
>
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