IOhannes,
Thanks for the input. What is strange is that the 'Media' tab in the
Menu doesn't list any soundcard atall (not like it did on my former
Ubuntu system). Also, I tried invoking Pd with the -alsa tag, but Pd
told me that there is no such tag :(
Still (not) working...
David
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I switched operating systems to Fedora 13 yesterday and it is great,
>> except that I cannot get Pd to address ALSA. The build goes well, no
>> errors, and Pd is there and it looks fine, except when I go to 'Audio
>> settings' the boxes next to input and output are empty. There are no
>> options to select. I have installed every ALSA package that I can find,
>> and still no joy. Any ideas? This is a sample what the console reports
>> during configuration:
> per default, Pd uses OSS. you have to manually tell it to use ALSA.
> Menu->Media->ALSA
>
> or start Pd with "-alsa".
>
> then the audio-menu should list your soundcards (that is: if you have
> any; can other (alsa) applications play sound?)
>
>> checking tcl.h usability... yes
>> checking tcl.h presence... yes
>> checking for tcl.h... yes
>> checking for main in -ltcl85... no
>> checking for main in -ltcl8.5... yes
>> checking for main in -ltk85... no
>> checking for main in -ltk8.5... yes
>> .................... alsa= yes
>>
>> I find the '....................' before alsa to be troubling.
>>
>> Anyone know how to fix this?