On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install pd on an Athlon with Debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 and the RME HDSP. Sound works both with oss-compatible apps (xmms, which autoloads snd-pcm-oss and snd-timer-oss) as well as with alsa apps. PD compiles and works in 0.35-0 and 0.36-10 with the -noaudio option (also midi from the RME card works well).
When I try to start with "pd -channels 2 &" the computer freezes completely (it prints out a short message about a OSS blocksize adjustment to 2048).
The very same setup works without any problems on my laptop.
Are you sure that you have the very same alsa installed ? Recent ALSA snapshots are known to have broken OSS emulation.
(and it surely is a bug in the driver, because there should be no way how a application with normal user privileges can freeze a machine, ..)
Guenter