Hi Nick,
I get this behavior sometimes when trying to address certain OSS drivers. The fix is to use "-frags 4" (for example) to force "old-style" FIFO control in the audio driver. Guenter has proposed a way Pd could detect the problem without hanging but I haven't tried it yet.
cheers Miller
When I start Pd with -nosound, it works fine (though without audio, obviously). But when I start it with audio, something weird happens to the gui: the menus screw up, and the DIO errors box (which is always red) only operates once before freezing up.
In more detail: Create a new patch - doesn't work Open a patch - brings up the open file dialog but doesn't subsequently open anything Quit - brings up the Quit? question, but doesn't subsequently do anything
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