I've had a problem launching Amsynth as well, on more than one machine. Here's the error I get:
amSynth 1.2.0 Copyright 2001-2006 Nick Dowell and others. amSynth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details cannot load JACK library ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA: cannot open audio device default ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA: cannot open audio device default <OSSAudioDriver> error: could not open dsp device /dev/dsp error: could not find "auto" audio driver *** buffer overflow detected ***: amsynth terminated then on the very bottom of a list of various .so files i get this: 0364a000-03650000 r-xp 00000000 00:10 158 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ libnss_compat-2.10.1.so 03650000-03651000 r--p 00005000 00:10 158 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ libnss_compat-2.10.1.so 03651000-03652000 rw-p 00006000 00:10 158 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ libnss_compat-2.10.1.so 0403e000-04082000 r-xp 00000000 00:10 1614 /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0 04082000-04084000 r--p 00043000 00:10 1614 /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0 04084000-04085000 rw-p 00045000 00:10 1614 /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.14.0zsh: abort amsynth I'm not sure if this would help solve the problem, is it a bug that should be reported? -grant On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Dan S <[email protected]<danstowell%[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi bryan - > > 2010/2/27 bryan eubanks <[email protected]>: > > using puredyne off of bootstick i made with unetbootin. doing both of > these > > on a eee pc 900ha and having a few problems and some general questions. i > > hope they can be answered here before i do a full install. > > Pd exhibits some audio problems, sounds okay, but when first booted up it > is > > runnign through jack and there are DIO errors all over. running through > alsa > > is okay. > > I'm not familiar with DIO errors but a bit of searching suggests it's > something to do with contention for the soundcard I/O - do you know? > > Anyway as a first stab, change the jack settings so there's more > latency but more buffering - e.g. increase the block size > ("frames/period"), I forget what the default is but if it's 256 for > example then try 512 or 1024. > > I wonder if it's the hard-drive or something like that causing the > contention. If so then it's possible to tweak priorities... but it > takes quite a bit of probing to work out what's going on. If you want > to probe the issue in detail then install "latencytop" a rather clever > command-line tool that will try and spot which components are causing > latency in the system. > > > > Kluppe can't connect to Jack, > > I'm not a klupperer sorry > > > > and I don't understand the two > > versions of SC included, although I have found info on using gedit with > SC > > but I''m wondering why there isn't a "familiar" version included in the > > distro. > > Well what are you familiar with? > > On linux, SuperCollider doesn't provide its own editor but rides on > top of your choice of editor, so if you're most comfortable with gedit > / emacs / vim then choose your favourite. The menu entries can > automatically launch emacs or vim in supercollider "mode". > > If gedit is your favourite then launch gedit and go > Edit>Preferences>Plugins and activate "sced", then you'll have the > menu option Tools>SuperCollider Mode. > > > > Also, not all of the programs open, such as am synth, and some > > others I don't know, this isn't such a big deal as all i rreally want to > use > > are pd, sc, and kluppe. > > I've tried making a few different sticks from different mirrors and > iso's... > > cd and dvd....but same results.... > > Is this an issue of small tweaks, eee, or just my own inexperience? > > I think your install is probably fine, we just need some tweaks to get > you settled... let us know how you get on... > > Dan > > > > thanks for help and sorry for the long first post... > > > > b..e. > > > > --- > > [email protected] > > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > > > > > -- > http://www.mcld.co.uk > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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