[PD] fedora 13 vs pd

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Thu Oct 28 09:04:32 CEST 2010


On 2010-10-28 00:31, david medine wrote:
>  Dear all,
> 
> I switched operating systems to Fedora 13 yesterday and it is great,
> except that I cannot get Pd to address ALSA. The build goes well, no
> errors, and Pd is there and it looks fine, except when I go to 'Audio
> settings' the boxes next to input and output are empty. There are no
> options to select. I have installed every ALSA package that I can find,
> and still no joy. Any ideas? This is a sample what the console reports
> during configuration:

per default, Pd uses OSS. you have to manually tell it to use ALSA.
Menu->Media->ALSA

or start Pd with "-alsa".

then the audio-menu should list your soundcards (that is: if you have
any; can other (alsa) applications play sound?)

> 
> checking tcl.h usability... yes
> checking tcl.h presence... yes
> checking for tcl.h... yes
> checking for main in -ltcl85... no
> checking for main in -ltcl8.5... yes
> checking for main in -ltk85... no
> checking for main in -ltk8.5... yes
> .................... alsa= yes
> 
> I find the '....................'  before alsa to be troubling.
> 
> Anyone know how to fix this?


apply the attached patch, and it should go away.

famdr
IOhannes
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