On 01/02/2011 06:38 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:
Yes. Pd seems to have skipped ALSA almost entirely during it's development, going from OSS directly to JACK. Someone else can correct me if I am wrong, but IIRC there are no proper ALSA drivers, only emulation through OSS.
ah I see -- but there is still an ALSA and an OSS setting in the gui which is misleading
Is there some reason you don't want to use JACK?
no - just a habit I got into -- I would fire up pd and point it to the system audio out without firing up Jack first -- now I know to just use Jack always
Latency and such should improve dramatically for you.
yes it also reduces the xruns which were a nuisance but I just ignored them if just poking at patches
Rather annoying move by Ubuntu however. I suppose you could compile it in yourself...
from what I understand and correct me if I'm wrong this was a decision made by the devs working on the Linux kernel
q: if the ALSA OSS emulation layer is no longer part of the kernel can it be modprobed back in? or does the kernel need a complete recompile? and if so is there a page somewhere describing how to do this? just curious...not sure I want to go down that rathole
D.
On 1/3/11 3:04 AM, Kim Cascone wrote:
is there a problem with ALSA and Pd now due to the removal of ALSA OSS emulation?