If you run an old version (either devel or miller) this might explain the behaviour. If not, I would really like to figure out what is happening. Thomas Charbonnel, maintainer of the RME HDSP driver told me at the ZKM meeting that it would not pay off to include ALSA support for the HDSP in PD, because JACK is working perfectly and offers so many advantages.
well, thomas was probably right about this, but since pd supports all 3 api's for linux audio hardware, it's not really good, if some hardware can only be accessed by specific api's ... (the hdsp only with jack / oss, some usb audio devices only with oss...)
since jack became the standard, it is probably the way to go, but as long as alsa is still supported by pd, we should try to support most cards including the hdsp ... (i hope, thomas finds his patch, so that we can add it to the cvs...)
the patch, frank wrote about, was only in miller's branch, not in the cvs. i added it and it works fine now ... thanks for the hint ...
cheers...
Tim mailto:TimBlechmann@gmx.de ICQ: 96771783 -- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" Jack Kerouac