Hi Thomas, Frank and al.
Following Thomas' directions I got xsample 2.4 and pyext working. I ended up reverting to gcc 2.95 (and g++, too, of course) just to be on the safe side as all of my system is built with those... Thanks Thomas.
xsample is working great. Pyext is as well.
Now, fiiwu~... I seem to have made some progress. I can instantiate it now without crashing. I can load a soundfont and it reports that the soundfont was loaded OK. However, sending it a note message makes pd hang and I have to kill it.
However, it also says (upon loading):
WARNING: Current samplerate 0 != 44100 WARNING: fiiwu~ might be out of tune!
which is strange because I always run pd @ 44100.
pd 0.35, as usual... (NOT the CVS version)