Re: [PD] stuck installing on OSX

Hi Mark

I am using pd with a Motu 828. Have you try to read different startup file (.pdrc) the way you could
isolate if the problem comes from a library. Also

could not open midi output device number 1: Invalid device ID.

that is a problem we share but does not matter according to the fact
that your I/O are:

0: CoreMIDI, Port B (input) 1: CoreMIDI, Port B (input) 2: CoreMIDI, Port B (output) 3: CoreMIDI, Port B (output)

I would not be surprise that:

Could not create output format converter: error = 0x666D743F = 'fmt?' Error number -10000 occured opening portaudio stream

are responsible for the rest of the problem (i.e. couldn' t find pd and
pd.tk which are there!); I had problem not long ago with a sound card which could not load
properly and that was actually causing problem in a patch that was
simply streaming out from a file on the disk (which should not involve
any audio IO).

Anyway, the Adam installer is very stable, but what I needed to do was
to update the portaudio for pd to solve my problem, thus I downloaded a
tree of pd from CVS http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pure-data/pd-0.36-extended2.tar.gz and recompile it with the good portaudio (I used Adam' s installer for installing tk). You may give it a try.

Alex

On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 09:56 pm, Mark Ballora wrote:

Sorry to make my first post here so long. I'm new to UNIX/OSX, and am
running in circles trying to get pd installed.

After running the installer twice, I get the following at the terminal:

[techboy:~] markballora% which pd /usr/local/pd/bin/pd

and

[techboy:~] markballora% ls /usr/local/pd/bin pd pd-watchdog pd.tk pdreceive pdsend pdtcl

So far so good?

Then I tried: [techboy:~] markballora% pd -listdev reading startup file: /Users/markballora/.pdrc Number of devices = 4 ---------------------------------------------- #1 Name = Built-in audio controller Max Inputs = 2, Max Outputs = 0 Sample Rate Range = 8000.000000 to 96000.000000 Native Sample Formats = paFloat32, ---------------------------------------------- #2 DefaultInput Name = MOTU 828 Max Inputs = 8, Max Outputs = 0 Sample Rate Range = 8000.000000 to 96000.000000 Native Sample Formats = paFloat32, ---------------------------------------------- #3 Name = Built-in audio controller Max Inputs = 0, Max Outputs = 2 Sample Rate Range = 8000.000000 to 96000.000000 Native Sample Formats = paFloat32, ---------------------------------------------- #4 DefaultOutput Name = MOTU 828 Max Inputs = 0, Max Outputs = 8 Sample Rate Range = 8000.000000 to 96000.000000 Native Sample Formats = paFloat32,

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0: CoreMIDI, Port B (input) 1: CoreMIDI, Port B (input) 2: CoreMIDI, Port B (output) 3: CoreMIDI, Port B (output) could not open midi output device number 1: Invalid device ID. using default input device number: 1 using default output device number: 3 nchan 2, flags 3, bufs 8, framesperbuf 256 Could not create output format converter: error = 0x666D743F = 'fmt?' Error number -10000 occured opening portaudio stream Error message: Host error. sh: /usr/local/bin/pd-watchdog: No such file or directory Error in startup script: couldn't read file "/usr/local/bin/pd.tk": no
such file or directory 1

Seems odd, since the list of the directory showed the pd.tk file. At
this point, I can run the program and get it to do simple math
patches, but no audio or MIDI test works.

The same thing happened when I tried running the program from the
prompt:

[techboy:~] markballora% pd reading startup file: /Users/markballora/.pdrc could not open midi output device number 1: Invalid device ID. using default input device number: 1 using default output device number: 3 nchan 2, flags 3, bufs 8, framesperbuf 256 Could not create output format converter: error = 0x666D743F = 'fmt?' Error number -10000 occured opening portaudio stream Error message: Host error. sh: /usr/local/bin/pd-watchdog: No such file or directory Error in startup script: couldn't read file "/usr/local/bin/pd.tk": no
such file or directory

I tried replacing /usr/local/pd/bin/pd file with the file from: http://homepage.mac.com/atl/.cv/atl/Public/pd-pa-new-binary.tar.gz- link.gz which is supposed to make it more compatible with the MOTU 828.

Now, when I try running it from the prompt, I get:

[techboy:~] markballora% pd dyld: pd can't open library: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (No such
file or directory, errno = 2) Trace/BPT trap

Similarly, trying to run it from Pd.command gives:

[techboy:~] markballora% /Applications/Pd.command; exit dyld: /usr/local/pd/bin/pd can't open library:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) /Applications/Pd.command: line 2: 793 Trace/BPT trap
/usr/local/pd/bin/pd -rt logout [Process completed]

Can anyone give me any guidance on how to get this thing working?

thanks --

Mark Ballora

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