[Ham-Mac] Status Report and Help Request on darwinPSK

[J]

Dick,

Surprisingly I had the same problem but the opposite way round. I could 
not get DarwinPSK to run on my iBook G3/600, as it would give exactly 
the same problem reported by you on your G4. Tom Dove did say to me 
that the iBook series did have a different hardware method of 
processing the sound than the G4 based machines, which could have been 
an explanation, although I never got to the bottom of it.

However I have managed to get it running on my G4DP 867 without any 
problems. The only thing I had to do different was to install the 
unstable packages for esound, FFTW and QT3 libraries. This involves 
selecting the unstable checkbox in Fink Commander's Preferences menu, 
and then selecting in the normal way the libraries in the top right 
hand corner of Fink Commander. The other thing I had to do was to 
install the libraries from the their source code as I could not 
download them as binaries. It took some time to do this but was 
successful.

My sound input is from a Griffin UBS iMic from my FT847, and while it 
is a bit sensitive on the receive level seems to work OK. I have not 
tried to transmit yet, so cannot comment on how well this side 
performs. I know that Tom has got some work to do on that side, and I 
know people (myself included) are happy to help in anyway we can.

Anyway hope this gives you somewhere to start from.

73's
Jason
M3BSK

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 01:16 AM, Richard Kriss wrote:

> The good news is I can get darwinpsk by Tom Dove "K3ORC" to load under 
> Mac
> X11 and can even run the 'rtty2.wav' RTTY demo file.  It looks great 
> and the
> waterfall display is really cool. The bad news is I have not been able 
> to
> get the application to hear anything via the Mac G4 and Kenwood TS-570.
>
> Rather than messing with hard wires at this time I have been trying to 
> use
> the Apple mic  that works perfect with EchoMac on this Mac G4.  I know 
> the
> mic works; however, it can't get it connected to the darwinpsk.
>
> Maybe someone can offer some suggestions on how to get the cotton out 
> of
> darwinpsk's ears.
>
> So you understand what I am doing.....I go to the 'LinPSK General 
> Settings'
> and unchecked the 'Demomod' box and opened another X11 terminal 
> session and
> made sure the esound was active by doing
>
> [G4-450:/sw/bin] dickkris% ./esd
> using device Built-in audio controller for output:
>         with sample rate 44100.000000, 2 channels and 32-bit sample
> using device Built-in audio controller for input:
>         with sample rate 44100.000000, 2 channels and 32-bit sample
>
> The sound comes on and the Mac speakers confirm the above. I then go 
> back to
> the LinPSK window and get a green dot when I click on the RX box.  
> That's
> all folks and NOTHING happens.  The application seems dead.... like an 
> old
> time Mac screen freeze.  I cannot move the sliders or get the RX box to
> change to TX.
>
> I must be doing something wrong and could use some help to jump start
> darwinpsk.   I realize some have had success with USB mics. Has anyone 
> been
> able to get darwinpsk to run on a G4?
>
> 73 de Dick,  AA5VU
>
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