I did, then it complains about the lack of MIDI (since my es1370 is Dell's OEM card without a gameport), but does not generally change the rest of the output. That's why I did not bother writing down that possibility.
Ico
-----Original Message----- From: ppagano@bellsouth.net [mailto:ppagano@bellsouth.net] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:38 PM To: ico@fuse.net Subject: Re: [PD] some interesting info regarding RME-Alsa (0.9) and
PD
(and other 0.35.9 suggestions)
try it without that -nomidi flag
Ivica Bukvic wrote:
I hope this might be helpful to whomever will be capable of making
Pd
latest
Alsa+RME friendly (which now, since Alsa has become incorporated
into
the
kernel should be a rather important issue ;-).
I was fiddling with different options, so this is what I could come
up
with:
On my system there are 2 soundcards es1370 as the primary card, and
RME
Hammerfall as the secondary one.
I am using latest Alsa 0.9.
Here's my .asoundrc file (which should be placed into one's home
dir,
and
this one works flawlessly with Ardour):
pcm.rme9652 { type hw card 1 } ctl.rme9652 { type hw card 1 } pcm.dsp1 { type plug slave.pcm rme9652 }
(please notice that my card # and dsp# refer to RME being secondary
card,
thus for example, I'd start ardour by saying: ardour -d rme9652 -f
2048
)
Now, as far as the latest 0.35.9 version of PD is concerned, here
are a
couple of suggestions:
the extra/expr~/vexp.h does not find properly some includes which
are
located
in the src/ dir. This might be the quirk of my machine, but the
easy
fix to
make a compile error-less would be to change m_pd.h include line of
this
file
from:
#include "m_pd.h"
to:
#include "../../src/m_pd.h"
(note: i did do make depend, but that did not resolve this "file not
found"
error)
Now onto the main reason for this e-mail :-)...
This is what I tried with the Pd in its current state: (note, I am using internal RME brackets with 8 i/o, so I have them
specified
appropriately)
call: pd -nomidi -alsa -inchannels 8 -outchannels 8 -alsadev 2 yields: audio I/O stuck... closing audio [app works, no sound]
call: pd -nomidi -alsa -alsadev 2 yields: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access (input): Invalid argument Sample width set to 4 bytes ALSA: set input channels to 14 snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access (output): Invalid argument alsa: set output channels to 14 pd: pcm.c:866: snd_pcm_writei: Assertion `pcm->access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED' failed. Aborted [app closes]
call: pd -nomidi -alsa -inchannels 26 -outchannels 26 -alsadev 2 yields: audio I/O stuck... closing audio [app works, no sound]
call: pd -nomidi -alsadev 2 yields: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access (input): Invalid argument Sample width set to 4 bytes ALSA: set input channels to 14 snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access (output): Invalid argument alsa: set output channels to 14 pd: pcm.c:866: snd_pcm_writei: Assertion `pcm->access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED' failed. Aborted [app closes]
call: pd -nomidi -alsa -inchannels 2 -outchannels 2 -alsadev 2 yields: audio I/O stuck... closing audio [app works, no sound]
(note: alsadeve 0 and 1 give me the es1370 card, probably since it
has
one
device for output and one for input, but I may be wrong about this
one)
Finally, if select -soundoutdev and -soundindev flags and specify
RME
for
being either primary or secondary (i.e. 0,1 or 1,0), then there are
no
errors
and the app works (sound works fine from the es1370), but the RME is
pretty
much dead sound-wise. (I am a bit rusty on PD, but my assumption is
that
DAC
3 and up should then refer to RME card, if the es1370 is specified
as
the
primary card, and there is no sound coming from it despite lack of
errors).
Anyhow, you get the pattern. It seems that there is some issue with
the
interleaved stuff, as well as recognizing the # of i/o and sample
width.
These to me seem to be minor problems, since some properties of the
card
are
definitely being recognized (and if I specify no. of channels, the
card
does
not report any error, except for the "stuck audio"), so I would hope
that
fixing it should not be that big of a deal. But then again, I never
coded a
driver, so what the heck do I know ;-).
Well, hope this may help getting the RME to work with PD. Cheers!
Ico