[PD] Screen tear/flicker when going full screen

2014-05-26 Thread Antonio Roberts
Hi, I'm running Pd Extended 0.43.4 on Ubuntu 14.04. I've got a Dell XPS13 with Intel Ivybridge Mobile i7 graphics and I'm getting lots of screen tear/flicker when I go full screen with an external monitor attached. It doesn't matter if I'm full screen on the external or primary monitor, I still

Re: [PD] [GEM-dev] Screen tear/flicker when going full screen

2014-05-26 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Hi Antonio, I had the same problem but with an Nvidia card on Mint 15 (ubuntu 13.10). Imho often times is not a software problem, but a firmware issue with the vertical blank and refresh rate. Does it happens with movies in full screen on an external monitor? So not sure this below will help

Re: [PD] [GEM-dev] Screen tear/flicker when going full screen

2014-05-26 Thread Antonio Roberts
have you tried enabling the sync to v-blank (or similar) in the settings for your gfx-card? this will prevent updating of the framebuffer while it is being drawn. Turns out I already had sync to v-blank enabled (through Compiz). I put the following lines in /etc/environment -

Re: [PD] Screen tear/flicker when going full screen

2014-05-26 Thread Antonio Roberts
Strangely I'm only getting some tearing as the youtube player controls start to disappear. Once they've gone the video plays as normal. If you have tearing in general, try to create a file called /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with the following options: That directory (xorg.conf.d)

Re: [PD] [lop~] coefficient calculation

2014-05-26 Thread Joe White
Ahh yes of course thanks Frank! Have you guys checked out this paper on 'High-Order Digital Parametric Equalizer Design http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=13397'? Apparently it reduces the need to cascade filter implementations to achieve high orders. Cheers, Joe On 24 May 2014 09:53,

Re: [PD] arguments not passed to an external

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
But for whatever reason, nearly all discussion-- and _especially_ discussion related to the development of Pd itself-- happens on the user list.  So just continue to send to the user list. -Jonathan On Monday, May 26, 2014 8:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [PD] arguments not passed to an external

2014-05-26 Thread Miller Puckette
Just to answer one sprcific question here... Lyon's book explaing what A_GIMME does, but not A_CANT. I checked m_pd.h a bit but didn't make much out of it. It is there where the problem lies? A_CANT is used when an object receives a message but the arguments can't be safely typechecked by

Re: [PD] arguments not passed to an external

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Well the maintainer on a lot of it is Hans, and I doubt he wants to do it by hand. -Jonathan On Monday, May 26, 2014 4:05 PM, Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu wrote: I wouldn't dare unleash a script on SVN - I think it's wiser to leave this up to whomever is maintaining individual packages.