Hi list,
I was able to start Pd on my notebook (P5 133 MMX/32MB) on which Win 95 OSR 2 is installed. The built-in soundcard is a ESS 1878, additionally I have a Emu 8710 PC-card soundcard, that is more or less a different package for a AWE 32. Pd does not work with internal soundcard, only with the Emu, but the performance is bad. As soon as I move the cursor around, the sound is getting interupted. When I switch of the input, things are getting a little bit better. So, my question is, would a switch to Linux improve the situation or is the machine underpowered anyway? Or would upgrading system memory and a switch to Windows NT be better?.
Thanks in advance for all help/comments etc.
Joerg
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Junger Joerg writes:
Hi list,
I was able to start Pd on my notebook (P5 133 MMX/32MB) on which Win 95 OSR 2 is installed. The built-in soundcard is a ESS 1878, additionally I have a Emu 8710 PC-card soundcard, that is more or less a different package for a AWE 32. Pd does not work with internal soundcard, only with the Emu, but the performance is bad. As soon as I move the cursor around, the sound is getting interupted. When I switch of the input, things are getting a little bit better. So, my question is, would a switch to Linux improve the situation or is the machine underpowered anyway? Or would upgrading system memory and a switch to Windows NT be better?.
I have pd running on my Notebook 100MHz Pentium under linux and it works fine if you adjust the priorities. (set suid)
There is a long response time because of the needed big audio buffers running kernel 2.0.34 but if reduce the scheduler intervall to 1ms (instead of 10ms) in the kernel (compile it) then I got down to 30ms MIDI-to-sound.
Never tried it with nt...