On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Nikolaus Passath wrote:

i m running pd/gem on a powerbook g3 with suseppc with ctwm as windowmanager. when i start pd, i have this failures: /dev/dsp (writeonly): Permission denied /dev/dsp (readonly): Permission denied error failed to open Midiportsd; continuing without midi

Looks like a problem with your permissions. Are you able to use other sound software, like xmms, ... which means: are you sure your soundcard works ?

try to set the permissions on /dev/dsp and /dev/midi as root: $ chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* $ chmod a+rw /dev/midi*

or do the equivalent in any filemanager you are using, (you have to be root anyhow).

i can start pd and open gem files, but when i create a gemwindow, there is some memory failure and pd_gui: pd process exited

Does not sound good .. did you use a precompiled version ? It may be caused by some library inconsistencies then.

Guenter