Re: waterfall malfunction (?) with fldigi-3.23.22.8

[Ed <au...@co...>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:54:28 +0100 (CET)
Giuseppe Ciaccio <giu...@un...> wrote:

> I have also installed FLTK from sources, following instructions at
> https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/wiki/Documentation/HOWTO/BuildOnDebian,
> nothing changes.  But now I know more about this malfunction.
> 
> The problem depends on the selected software interface to the audio
> device.  This release of Fldigi works properly when Pulseaudio is
> selected, whereas it is broken whith OSS.  So it seems to be a bug in
> the fldigi/OSS interfacing.
> 
> The reason why I prefer OSS is that it's more plug-and-play: when I
> insert the additional USB soundcard into my laptop for using with my
> rig, the running Pulseaudio server seems to remain unaware of it; but
> a new device /dev/dsp1 is instantly created under OSS, and fldigi can
> select and use it quickly.  Another drawback is that, each time the
> Pulseaudio server is started, the Pulseaudio socket is created under
> a fresh /tmp/pulse-XXXXXX directory, where XXXXXX is a random string
> that must be copied each time into fldigi config.
> 
> 
> 73 de iz1qze Giuseppe

As per the user manual, that space is left blank. Please install and use
the Pulse Volume manager (pavucontrol).

Ed W3NR