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pd for Debian
----------------------

Soundcards and Drivers
=======================

Pd uses your soundcard in a way to reduce the latency introduced by 
audio buffering. This may in some circumstances introduce distortions.

There are different methods to solve this problem.

1) starting pd with certain flags:

 -frags <n>

 sets the number of fragments used in the OSS driver, and additionally
 triggers the "good old and stable" device interface.
 
 -noadc

 start pd in output only mode.


2) Using ALSA with OSS emulation

3) Try to install the OSS/Free version instead of OSS commercial.





Configuration
==============

Instead of passing your command line flags to pd, you can write them
into your ~/.pdrc file. Each commandline switch on its own line like

 -path /usr/lib/pd/doc
 -frags 4
 -noadc
 -lib Gem



 -- Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>, Tue,  3 Aug 1999 14:33:26 +0200