Re: [Denemo-devel] Denemo fails to start

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 11:44 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Thank you for your hints.
> 
> I tried to compile 1.1.2, but it fails in sourceaudio.c. I remember that
> this had something to do with the libaubio version, but my Linux
> distribution does not provide libaubio3.
Can you use the binary versions?

> 
> So I tried to delete the three lines
>     <portaudio_device>ALSA: USB Audio DAC: - (hw:2,0)</portaudio_device>
>     <portaudio_sample_rate>44100</portaudio_sample_rate>
>     <portaudio_period_size>256</portaudio_period_size>
> from my .denemo-1.1.9/denemorc, and it solved the problem. 

I would guess that only the first of these is involved, as I don't
suppose you have changed the others from the default...

> Denemo did
> start up again after that.

what values did it put in those fields on this successful start?

>  But the program should not crash when a
> selected audio device is busy or not available.
absolutely - I think it should be possible to check for success opening
the preferred device and do something more sensible if it failed.

Richard