Firstly, thanks for the help!

Heir Barknecht hat gesagt:

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Question one: I have make install-ed alsa 1.3a drivers, do I have to rebuild my kernel, as alsa is now built into the kernel in 2.6?

2.6.3 comes with ALSA 1.0.x inside. I don't know which, but you shouldn't need to upgrade. If you still want newer ALSA drivers, then build the kernel without alsa, check out ALSA cvs and "./configure --prefix=/your/kernel-2.6.3/path && make install" it

Ok, so when I build the driver with kernel = linux 2.6.3 its not updating the kernel source? So ill just go with the linux alsa then... I still run alsasound from init.d, right, despite the drivers being in the kernel?

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Question two: I get this error with pd and the multiface

using non-interleaved audio input Sample width set to 4 bytes snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access (output): Invalid argument using non-interleaved audio pd: pcm.c:1133: snd_pcm_readi: Assertion `pcm->access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED\' failed. Pd: signal 6

Does Jack work? Does Pd work over Jack?

Yes and no. I get no errors, but audio doesnt work. When I test audio and midi, and send midi out, the midi light flashes on the multiface, and when I run hdsploader, the host error light goes away.

Its not that I get clicking or intermittent sounds of any kind, I just get deas silence... My audiodev is set to 3, but my /proc/asound/cards has just 0 -> maestro3 and 1 -> hdsp. Through experementation I found that the -alsa flang in conjunction with -audiodev 3 references the hdsp.

I ran this:

[wade@transport wade]$ sudo jackd -R -d alsa -d hw:1 -r 48000 -p 2048 jackd 0.94.0 Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details

JACK compiled with System V SHM support loading driver .. apparent rate = 48000 creating alsa driver ... hw:1|hw:1|2048|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|rt|32bit control device hw:1 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 2048 frames, buffer = 2 periods

[wade@transport wade]$ sudo pd reading startup file: /home/wade/.pdrc priority 98 scheduling enabled. memory locking enabled. priority 96 scheduling enabled. memory locking enabled. couldn't open MIDI input device 0 couldn't open MIDI input device 2 couldn't open MIDI output device 0 couldn't open MIDI output device 2 opened 1 MIDI input device(s) and 1 MIDI output device(s). PDP: pure data packet PDP: version 0.12.3 PiDiP : additional video processing objects for PDP : version 0.12.13 ( ydegoyon@free.fr )

[wade@transport wade]$ cat .pdrc -jack -rt -lib /usr/local/lib/pd/externs/pdp -lib /usr/local/src/pidip-0.12.13/pidip -path /usr/local/src/pidip-0.12.13/patches -path /usr/local/src/pidip-0.12.13/doc -path /usr/local/src/pidip-0.12.13/fonts -path /usr/local/lib/pd/externs -mididev 1,2,3 -r 48000 -sounddev 3 -blocksize 2048 -channels 18 -audiobuf 8