IOhannes, Thanks for the input. What is strange is that the 'Media' tab in the Menu doesn't list any soundcard atall (not like it did on my former Ubuntu system). Also, I tried invoking Pd with the -alsa tag, but Pd told me that there is no such tag :( Still (not) working... David

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Dear all,

I switched operating systems to Fedora 13 yesterday and it is great, except that I cannot get Pd to address ALSA. The build goes well, no errors, and Pd is there and it looks fine, except when I go to 'Audio settings' the boxes next to input and output are empty. There are no options to select. I have installed every ALSA package that I can find, and still no joy. Any ideas? This is a sample what the console reports during configuration:

per default, Pd uses OSS. you have to manually tell it to use ALSA. Menu->Media->ALSA

or start Pd with "-alsa".

then the audio-menu should list your soundcards (that is: if you have any; can other (alsa) applications play sound?)

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checking tcl.h usability... yes checking tcl.h presence... yes checking for tcl.h... yes checking for main in -ltcl85... no checking for main in -ltcl8.5... yes checking for main in -ltk85... no checking for main in -ltk8.5... yes .................... alsa= yes

I find the '....................' before alsa to be troubling.

Anyone know how to fix this?