[PD] PD with Ubuntu Karmic - no sound

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

How would we make Pd use that ALSA compatibility layer?  I know about  
the OSS emulation in Pulseaudio, I believe that would work by doing  
'padsp pd'.

.hc

On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:28 PM, John Harrison wrote:

> 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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