[PD] pidid and a camera dv/via usb converter on ubuntu

[ydegoyon at gmail.com]

husk wrote:
> ydegoyon at gmail.com ha scritto:
>> Husk 00 wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:11 AM, t'es in t'es bat 
>>> <tesintesbat at gmail.com <mailto:tesintesbat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     hello,
>>>     yes i try many possibilities of pd and right now i succed to
>>>     making work
>>>     a 4 screen ubuntu computer with rendering on every screen...
>>>     A tool for live se...
>>>
>>>
>>> cool!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     How can i be root to use pdp_ieee1394
>>>     I'd just launch pd with a gksudo ???
>>>
>>>
>>> You can launch PD from a terminal as root (sudo pd). But, as some 
>>> objects have problems if you are using it as super user (like 
>>> playlist for example), it's better to change permissions to the 
>>> device you want to use. In this way you don't really need to be root.
>> totally wrong!!!
>> you can't use playlist if you're root, what's that?
>> ( i do this everyday almost,
>> except when i'm bored with pd )
> Ok, but never worked in my machines (neither in others where I tryed).
> BTW, this is the error: playlist: could you not get current directory 
> (where the hell are you??? )
>
it's not a real problem
( although you start pd in a strange environment,
without $PWD )

if you do this form a terminal,
it doesn't happen.


and you can always fix it with a [location /tmp(
message so there's no harm at all,
nothing crashed.

ciao,
sevy