[PD] Ubuntu. PD, Pulseaudio problems

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:24 PM, husk wrote:

> gnd at itchybit.org ha scritto:
>> hello,
>>
>> im using Ubuntu Jaunty and have problems with sound in PD 0.41.4- 
>> extended
>> when using simultaneously Firefox and/or Audacious.
>>
>> If i start PD sooner then firefox and audacious, they dont make any  
>> sounds
>> but sound in pd works ok. If i start PD later, firefox and  
>> audacious work
>> fine, but sound in PD gets stuck with:
>> snd_pcm_open (output): Device or resource busy (in the shell)
>> audio I/O stuck... closing audio (in pd console)
>>
>> Both FF and Audacious are using the pulseaudio server. I tried to  
>> create a
>> /etc/asound.conf, to create a new device:
>>
>> pcm.pulse {
>>    type pulse
>> }
>> ctl.pulse {
>>    type pulse
>> }
>> pcm.!default {
>>    type pulse
>> }
>> ctl.!default {
>>    type pulse
>> }
>>
>> and use it with pd -alsa -alsaadd pulse, but the audio output in pd  
>> still
>> doesnt work when running some other sound applications. When  
>> running pd
>> alone like this, the sound is severely garbled and after a while it  
>> hangs
>> the same...
>>
>> Is there some normal way how to handle this ? I mean it should not  
>> be a
>> problem using several application at once but apparently pd has some
>> problems with it..
>>
>>
> Try to use command: padsp pd -oss. It worked for me.
> let me know
> husk


Do you have any more info on the 'padsp' command?  If this makes Pd  
work easily with pulseaudio, it seems that the Pd-extended menu item  
in the Ubuntu menus could then start pd with that 'padsp pd -oss'  
command.

.hc


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