On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Miller Puckette <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aha - Pd somehow got compiled without ALSA support - perhaps, when you > compiled Pd, you had not yet installed alsa-devel. Install alsa-devel > and recompile Pd. > apt-get can't find any alsa-devel... apt-cache search "^alsa-" gave this: alsa-base - ALSA driver configuration files alsa-firmware-loaders - ALSA software loaders for specific hardware alsa-oss - ALSA wrapper for OSS applications alsa-source - ALSA driver sources alsa-tools - Console based ALSA utilities for specific hardware alsa-tools-gui - GUI based ALSA utilities for specific hardware alsa-utils - Utilities for configuring and using ALSA maybe alsa-utils? > > cheers > Miller > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 07:05:41PM +0200, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:28 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> install 'alsa-oss' if you haven't already got it > > > >> run 'aoss pd' instead of 'pd' > > > >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/alsa-oss > > > >> > > > > This last one did it! Launching Pd with -oss won't work (it can't > find > > > > > > obviously, since "pd -oss" does the same as "pd": it tries using the > > > OSS-drivers. > > > but... > > > > > > > /dev/dsp), but launching it like you suggest "aoss /usr/local/bin/pd" > > > > outputs audio properly. > > > > > > > > > you really should avoid using OSS (unless forced to, because your > > > soundcard only has OSSv4 drivers). > > > use > > > "pd -alsa" to use ALSA directly. > > > (the hacks mentioned in the other mail really emulate the OSS layer on > > > top of ALSA...) > > > > > The thing is that when I launch Pd with the -alsa flag, I get a prompt of > > the available flags, and Pd doesn't launch (and -alsa and -jack is not > > there, even though I configured Pd with --enable-jack). Do you have to > > configure Pd with ALSA explicitly when compiling from source? > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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