Miller,
If you are using a current ALSA release things are pretty well broken. I gave up trying to track the changes until things settle down with the ALSA development (which will probably be anonther month at least). I had another imporoved version that did mmap mode and some other things but almost as soon as I got it working things became 'interesting' with the ALSA releases. To their credit, though, the ALSA developers are making some good changes it seems. The last ALSA I know it works with is 0.5.6 - if this doesn't work let me know.
Karl
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Miller Puckette wrote:
Hi all,
is anyone managing to run Pd using the ALSA audio system? Finally (after 2 years of trying) I got ALSA running on my machine in order to test the "pd -alsa" flag for myself. Surprise: it fails ("audio stuck"). I'm using Karl's ALSA code as seen in the current Pd release.
I've discovered that it's at least possible to run Pd with ALSA emulating OSS. You either have to suppress ADC, or else throw Pd a "-frags" flag which it complains about but then works anyway.
Any ideas are welcome... I really hope in the future I can actually test Pd releases with both ALSA and OSS before releasing them!
cheers Miller
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