Hey Chuck,
A lot of stuff doesn't sound good here.
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:51:16 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" badmuthahubbard@gmail.com wrote:
the Jack icon goes red and I get a bunch of DIO errors in Pd, and I find that I can no longer use any of the menu options in Pd.
Gut instinct - some other process is gobbling up CPU and your X windows is doubleplusungood too. What says
~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/XFree86 and /var/log/messages ?
When it happened, I closed and restarted Pd (thankfully I wasn't actually working on anything) and in the Jack connections, the old instance of Pd remained in the MIDI tab.
If you do a jack_lsp how do the ID numbers match with the connections you see in the (old) connections list?
If you do a ps aux is there a zombie of the old pd-gui or pd?
What wm with DeMundi? I use fluxbox or blackbox - highly recommended.
Also, my latency is higher than in Windows. Pd starts up set to 50, and by the time I have Jack, Pd, and Ardour open, I'm getting errors, even with no patches open. Is this common? Are there settings I don't know about, or is Linux inferior to Windows in this regard?
No, but Jack takes a lot more setting up afaics, I spent hours tweaking my jack settings to get the latency vs xruns good. Sounds like something on a bigger scale is the problem, maybe process management or memory management not right.
There are other times programs just don't start when selected in Linux, and right now I have the Jack control open but the icon for it has disappeared. I've installed this same Linux distro 3 times in the last day due to various problems. It's the latest "stable" DeMudi, with kernel 2.6.12-3.
Dont start? You checked for them in the process table? Or they just don't launch a GUI?
2.6.12-3 sounds awfully modern, maybe that's got something to do with it.
That's my wild hand waving speculation for you. I don't know DeMundi I always roll my own minimal Debian sys from apt-gets.
Grab PureDyne and use that liveCD to test out your hardware.