[gentoo-user] Re: Pure Data (Pd) can't access ALSA device

2017-09-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-09-22 23:13, Lasse Pouru wrote: > I don't (and won't) use PulseAudio and haven't set up dmix or anything > like it. The weird thing is the simultaneous audio works with every > other program I use (Qutebrowser, mpd, Audacity etc.) -- it's only Pd > that gives the error. AFAIK dmix has

Re: [gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage

2017-09-22 Thread Urs Schütz
On 09/20/17 07:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I missed the Gentoo news bit if there was one. For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application, are there any desktop alternatives in Portage for non-Chrome

Re: [gentoo-user] Pure Data (Pd) can't access ALSA device

2017-09-22 Thread Lasse Pouru
I don't (and won't) use PulseAudio and haven't set up dmix or anything like it. The weird thing is the simultaneous audio works with every other program I use (Qutebrowser, mpd, Audacity etc.) -- it's only Pd that gives the error. I already use JACK when recording but it would be more convenient

Re: [gentoo-user] Pure Data (Pd) can't access ALSA device

2017-09-22 Thread Daniel Sonck
This sounds pretty normal to me. ALSA isn't really suited for simultaneous audio access. In general with ALSA you have only one program that can use audio at a time, or you use the mixer module from ALSA. I assume a program running on the background has claimed ALSA already for certain reasons.

[gentoo-user] Pure Data (Pd) can't access ALSA device

2017-09-22 Thread Lasse Pouru
I can't get Pure Data to work with ALSA. It detects my sound card, but whenever I try to turn on the audio I get the error: ALSA output error (snd_pcm_open): Device or resource busy. I've tried both using the ebuild from the audio-overlay and compiling from the source on the Pd website, both

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo and Windows don't get along on vfat

2017-09-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:43:24PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Naturally, I always unmount the drive prior to removing it physically, > > usually with KDE’s media manager. The drive (or the controller in the case?) > > contains a cdrom emulation to offer drivers and something called “WD > >

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo and Windows don't get along on vfat

2017-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, September 22, 2017 12:56:01 PM CEST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > He guys, > > I regularly attach a friend’s external HDD to my laptop or NAS, both running > “standard” Gentoo. The main partition is fat32 formatted. On and off she > has problems mounting the drive, usually after I had it

[gentoo-user] My Gentoo and Windows don't get along on vfat

2017-09-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
He guys, I regularly attach a friend’s external HDD to my laptop or NAS, both running “standard” Gentoo. The main partition is fat32 formatted. On and off she has problems mounting the drive, usually after I had it connected to one of my machines. It happened again today. So chronologically: 1)