Remains a mystery for the time being....I installed the ttf-bitstream-vera font via synaptic which was not actually installed before, but without the -font-face Monaco flag it still crashed... Meanwhile your patch/program is really great. Fantastic realtime audio processes, but problematical when using video ... as soon as I open a gem window audio starts to break up. To stop audio from breaking up on my laptop I've had to hack the C[]NTR[]L patch into seperate audio and video patches, and running 2 simultaneous instances of pd one for audio and one for video, sending the note bangs via OSC/udp from one instance to the other. Not sure why one should have to do this, but it works perfectly like that. Maybe you know an easier way??
Thank you for your help and sharing this with the pd community.
Nick

On 02/28/2011 05:51 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
Hi Nick,
good to know, but this is just a workaround.
That command line changes the font-face which Pd will use.

Looking for the xfont error log you have posted I found this thread:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-05/2360.html

A similar error has been solved --dpkg purge(ing) and apt-get install(ing) two font packages. If I'm not wrong the Pd default font is ttf-bitstream-vera, I guess there could be something wrong in your font configuration.

Although, I don't understand why it causes your Pd to crash only with cntrl and flext.
Anyone?

Best,
Marco


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Nick Burge <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    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
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
        <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
            <[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]>
                <mailto:[email protected]>
                To:     [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>



                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
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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            <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
        <http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/>




-- 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/>




--
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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