[PD] c:ntr:l
Nick Burge
nburge at virginmedia.com
Mon Feb 28 10:17:54 CET 2011
Yes....that's it. The patch loads fine now. I guess I should add the
"-font-face Monaco" flag to the startup settings.
Can you explain why this makes it work?
Thanks very much for your help.
Nick
On 02/28/2011 01:28 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> I see. Thanks for the info.
>
> Could you try to start Pd from the terminal with:
> pdextended -font-face Monaco
>
> It seems hard to find the problem. I saw you wrote on the list, did
> anybody replied?
> If not, I'll write too. I'm sorry but I'm a bit clueless at the
> moment, but I use to run the patch on several Ubuntu machines and
> never encountered this problem before.
>
> Best,
> Marco
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Nick Burge <nburge at virginmedia.com
> <mailto:nburge at virginmedia.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Marco, I uninstalled compiz in synaptic but the crash is still
> happening. Yes, I can bang the other bangs and I see the help
> patches no problem. The graphic card is G86 nvidia GEforce 8400m G
> The only time I had a crash like this was when trying to use
> Thomas Grills flext based external Xsample.
> Otherwise PD behaves in a very stable manner.
> The font issue may well be the cause, but that is just a sort of
> hunch of mine.
> Many thanks for your interest and support in this problem
> Nick
>
>
>
>
> On 02/23/2011 01:01 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
>> Ok, if you have Compiz enabled, could you try to disable it and
>> run again CNTRL from the terminal?
>>
>> Are you able to bang the other [bangs] in the splash screen and
>> see the related popup subpatches?
>>
>> Which graphic card do you have?
>>
>> It seems something related to the font Pd look for, but can't
>> find useful info about it. I'll keep on looking.
>>
>> Can you normally use Pd with no problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Best,
>> Marco
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Nick Burge
>> <nburge at virginmedia.com <mailto:nburge at virginmedia.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marco....I tried the -noloadbang flag, but the crash
>> actually occurs when I click the big bang button on the
>> splash screen to open the main C[]NTR[]L patch.
>> Any ideas much appreciated.
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/22/2011 06:07 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
>>> Hi Nick,
>>> thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.
>>>
>>> I run the software on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx with no problem.
>>> Indeed, the log you posted seems to be something X11
>>> related, even though at the moment we cannot exclude it's
>>> CNTRL doing something that your system does not like.
>>>
>>> Could you try to run CNTRL in the terminal with the flag
>>> -noloadbang?
>>> Perhaps there are some initialization parameters which
>>> conflict with some settings of your system.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Marco
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Nick Burge
>>> <nburge at virginmedia.com <mailto:nburge at virginmedia.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> btw, running pd extended in a terminal I get the
>>> following error when it crashes out....
>>>
>>>
>>> X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient
>>> resources for operation)
>>> Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
>>> Serial number of failed request: 22074
>>> Current serial number in output stream: 22075
>>> recv: Connection reset by peer (104)
>>>
>>> best Nick.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: c:ntr:l
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:49:50 +0000
>>> From: Nick Burge <tectp at telefonica.net>
>>> <mailto:tectp at telefonica.net>
>>> To: devel at thesaddj.com <mailto:devel at thesaddj.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Marco, congratulations on your interesting and beautifully
>>> documented project Xth sense.
>>> I'm interested in trying to get C:NTR:l running on my ubuntu 10.04
>>> laptop system, but trying to start the patch crashes PD and causes it to
>>> close immediately.
>>> Do you know of anyone running it on a comparable system?
>>> best regards, Nick Burge.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Marco Donnarumma
>>> Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Professional,
>>> Performer, Instructor
>>> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
>>> The University of Edinburgh, UK
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Marco Donnarumma
>> Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Professional, Performer,
>> Instructor
>> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
>> The University of Edinburgh, UK
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com <http://marcodonnarumma.com/>
>> Lab: http://www.thesaddj.com <http://www.thesaddj.com/> |
>> http://cntrl.sourceforge.net <http://cntrl.sourceforge.net/> |
>> http://www.flxer.net <http://www.flxer.net/>
>> Event: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
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>
>
>
>
> --
> Marco Donnarumma
> Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Professional, Performer, Instructor
> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
> The University of Edinburgh, UK
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com <http://marcodonnarumma.com/>
> Lab: http://www.thesaddj.com <http://www.thesaddj.com/> |
> http://cntrl.sourceforge.net <http://cntrl.sourceforge.net/> |
> http://www.flxer.net <http://www.flxer.net/>
> Event: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
> <http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/>
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