[PD] pd on armv7 (beagleboard): crackles / pcm not available?

[Damian Stewart]

> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:39:14 +0200
> From: IOhannes zm?lnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> On 07/09/2010 01:01 PM, Damian Stewart wrote:
> 
>> 2b. (after sudo killall xdm) i tried running pd -nogui -alsa -noadc -open my_test_patch.pd, which gives me no sound output at all, just a message that "snd_pcm_open (output): Device or resource busy". 
> 
> just in case: you are aware of the problems on linux with starting the
> audio-engine with loadbang in a nogui-environment?
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2724318&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> 
> the workaround usually is to delay the "; pd dsp 1" message sufficiently.

thanks IOhannes, this took away the snd_pcm_open error.


> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:01:07 +0200
> From: august <august at alien.mur.at>
> 
> it sounds like a pulseaudio problem.  Ubuntu comes with a sound deamon
> called pulseaudio.  Pd doesn't like it, but other apps are okay with it.
> 
> try killing or removing pulseaudio or 
> doing "pasuspender"
> 
> and then starting pd with alsa.

thanks august, 
but nope, that wasn't it - no pulse audio processes running here.


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