Subject: [linux-audio-user] noise problem with ImproSculpt: solved !
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 18:15:59 EET
Greetings:
I finally resolved the mouse noise problem with ImproSculpt. Here's
what I did:
1. Made the csound binary suid root.
2. Erased the CsOptions for Linux in the ImproSculpt.csd file
(they're ignored when csound is suid root).
3. Ran the app so:
csound --sched -d -i devaudio -o devaudio -b 512 -B 4096 -m6
ImproSculpt.csd
Screen redraws are slower, but the mouse noise is gone. I'm still
confused as to why all this trouble just "suddenly" occurred, but I'm
glad to have discovered a solution. I also learned a lot about PCI
latency timing, graphics card priority, hard/software buffering, and
lots of other stuff that chewed up a bunch of my time.
Many thanks to all who responded to my dilemma, I appreciate all the
assistance and advice.
Best regards,
dp
Gabriel Maldonado wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> It could depend on the massive CPU resources required by improsculpt,
> so any movement on the GUI can subtract processor time, causing
> drop-outs. Have you tried to increase the buffer size? However, try to
> ask Oeyvind if this could be a possible cause. Notice that in
> CsoundAV, there is still the original FLTK code, not that modified by
> Istvan. I still have to study Istvan code, to see if there are
> substantial differences, besides merging all code in a unique cpp file.
>
> Gabriel
>
>
> Dave Phillips wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I've been testing various CSD files to see and hear how the FLTK
>> opcodes are supported in the most recent canonical CVS sources. Many
>> files work fine (e.g., J. M. Comajuncosas' 303 emulator, his Synth
>> Toot, and his Direct Hammond2), but I'm having a problem with Oeyvind
>> Brandtsegg's ImproSculpt. When I move the mouse in this program I
>> hear a nasty ripping noise tracking the mouse movement. Noise occurs
>> when I change window focus or move a window. Note that this noise
>> does not occur with other FLTK-based apps, so I'm wondering what
>> there might be in ImproSculpt to cause this trouble. Steven Yi
>> suggested that the FLTK updating may itself be a problem, but the
>> other apps tested work fine. So I'm at an impasse and can use some
>> suggestions for troubleshooting. Sorry to bother the developer's list
>> but it seemed the better forum to ask in. Could Steven be right about
>> the FLTK opcodes themselves causing the problem ? Would there be any
>> advantage compiling Csound against a static libfltk ?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dave Phillips
>>
>>
>
>
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