[PD] another day's raspberry pi experiences

geoffroy gef at ponnuki.net
Sun Sep 16 03:11:34 CEST 2012


Thanks,

It's working great now - but now I seems to have problem with Jack, 
seems like I need to compile it to run it headless - anyone else ran 
into that problem ?

I hope the raspberry pi can run jack and pd!!



On 09/16/2012 01:46 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> Sorry all.. the README is out of date - from git, it's necessary to
> make a "configure" file by typing "autoconf".  Then "./configure" and
> "make".
>
> Miller
>
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:38:23AM +0200, geoffroy wrote:
>> HI there,
>>
>> I am trying to follow how to compile pd on the raspberry pi and I am
>> stuck at the ./configure in the src folder.
>>
>> The git downloaded all the files and everything seems fine up to
>> that point but there is no configure file in the src folder, so I
>> get a no such file or folder when I do the ./configure.
>>
>> I try the ./autogen.sh but that also failed.
>>
>> Any pointers would be appreciated!!
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On 09/09/2012 06:45 AM, pd-list-request at iem.at wrote:
>>> Message: 5
>>> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 20:13:41 -0700
>>> From: Miller Puckette<msp at ucsd.edu>
>>> Subject: [PD] another day's raspberry pi experiences
>>> To:pd-list at iem.at
>>> Message-ID:<20120909031341.GJ1555 at stripe.ucsd.edu>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>
>>> Hi again-
>>>
>>> Having fooled with the Pi a few more hours I think I now have a better idea
>>> how the thing behaves.
>>>
>>> The main difficulty I've had is that having a USB keyboard and/or mouse
>>> connected to the Pi seems to conflict with USB audio devices.  The main
>>> symptom is that Pd's GUI freezes.  This seems to happen whether the GUI is
>>> running on the Pi's own X server or over an ssh connection.
>>>
>>> The best mileage I can get is to ssh over from another machine, so that the
>>> only USB devices on the pi itself are the audio device and the network adapter
>>> (which is implemented as a USB 2.0 device.)  I'm suspicious that the addition
>>> of a keyboard forces USB down to 1.1, but things break even if I plug in a
>>> keyboard via a USB 2.0 hub.  (It's an old hub though, maybe a newer one
>>> would work better?)
>>>
>>> I was then able to get audio output going with only occasional glitches (3
>>> or 4 per minute I think.)  I was never able to get input and output both
>>> working at once without manifold glitches.
>>>
>>> I'm using Pd 0.44 (test version) for this, which I've just fixed up to not
>>> require the tcl and tk h files to compile Pd (why I didn't clean that out
>>> earlier I have no idea:)   It's still necessary to run:
>>>
>>> apt-get install libasound2-dev
>>>
>>> before Pd wil be able to use the ALSA audio.  Then grab Pd from git:
>>>
>>> git clone git://pure-data.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pure-data/pure-data
>>>
>>> (Maybe you'll have to apt-get install git first), then cd to pd/src,
>>> ./configure and make.  Takes about 17 minutes to compile.
>>>
>>> And by the way, don't use OSS audio - it's not running by default but if
>>> youturn it on and try it out; it instantly crashes the Pi.
>>>
>>> WHAT I DON"T KNOW YET: I don't have an HDMI monitor and so can't test the
>>> "HDMI audio".  I imagine it might be more robust than using  USB audio device
>>> (and, by the way, in 0.44 you can sort of get away with using separaate devices
>>> for input and output, although there's no correction for clock drift).
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Miller
>>
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