hi,

i'm pretty new to Pd, having some trouble getting it running on suse 10.2. Pd launches, but is just very, very, very, slow. for example, if i try to open a patch, it's about half a minute before the window appears; and another 30 seconds before anything is drawn in it. the interface in the window is unresponsive, i can't get any audio, can't go into Edit mode, or anything.

• it's an athlon 64, running suse 10.2 x86_64.

• pd worked great on the exact same box under suse 9.3 64bit, and even better in ubuntu 6.10 edgy. so the fault is probably with suse, but what could be the difference? baffling.

• same issue whether installing from the repositories, or compiling from scratch

thanks,

--arky

SOLVED!

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/dsp*
sudo chmod a+rw /dev/audio*

stupid linux.

thanks albertoz,

that gave me hope, and now i've .5 solved it. looking at it again, i noticed that at launch it also prints an error, "Pd: System call timed out". also the "Media" menu was blank.

some trial and error later, discovered that

pd -noadc

works. so that's good; but i guess that means i have no sound input?

so here's some more detailed info; there's probably numerous threads and resources for dealing with this, so i'll also go do some more hunting.

~> pd -oss

Pd: system call timed out

(windows are unresponsive, no Media menu, etc)

~> pd -alsa

no terminal errors; in Pd, it says "audio stuck: closing audio"

~> pd -jack

no errors, but no sound either.