[PD] PD with Ubuntu Karmic - no sound

[John Harrison]

IIRC there is some sort of ALSA compatibility layer in Pulseaudio and I
think it would be nice if Pd-extended could choose this ALSA "driver" or
"soft card" or whatever it would be called. That would be a better solution
than pasuspender because then Pd would be playing "nice" with all the other
sound apps concurrently. Latency might be slightly worse but I think for
beginners at least the initial experience would be more positive, as many of
these users are coming from OS X and Windows platforms where sound
applications sharing the same sound card concurrently is expected behavior.

I also vaguely remember the pulseaudio is only an issue with ALSA when there
is no hardware mixer in the card. But my guess is that would be all cheap
sound cards, since it has been the case with the built-in cards on all the
Linux-based laptops I run into.

-John

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> Is pasuspender something that could be integrated into the Pd-extended menu
> launch item somehow?  I'd really like to make sure that Pd will output audio
> by just starting it in Debian/Ubunut.
>
> .hc
>
> On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:09 PM, John Harrison wrote:
>
> could be pulseaudio is the problem?
>
> from the command line try
>
> pasuspender pd
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Aditya Mandayam <adityams at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> i have pd installed on ubunty 9.10 - karmic koala.
>>
>> i have absolutely no sound when i fire up pd. i've tried fooling
>> around with the Media>settings for OSS, ALSA, jack, default MIDI.
>>
>> No sound. What gives?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Y
>>
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