Hi,
Wonder if anyone can help.

If I run puredata on "PureDyne 911 Carrot and Coriander" (i.e. I boot onto it), I can successfully implement the first few bits of the tutorial at http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/ch02.html#chapt2.1.1. It works, no problem.

However, having installed puredata on Ubuntu 11.04 using the default package - OR - installed pd-extended following instructions posted here (http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-6214-natty) - I hit a snag.

Very early on in the tutorial, it states:

"
If you place the cursor onto the outlet rectangle, it changes to a circle (which resembles an open socket for a cable).
"

When I'm working in Ubuntu 11.04 (so this does not happen using the "PureDyne" DVD), if I move the cursor over, or place the cursor onto the outlet rectangle, the cursor changes from the hand to an arrow with a little "forbidden" symbol attached to the bottom right hand of the arrow i.e. I *cannot* attach a "cable" - it simply does not allow me.

Just wondered if anyone knew what was going on here. Keep in mind that if I run the "PureDyne" DVD on the same laptop, i.e. I boot onto the DVD, it works fine, no problem (so it's not the hardware).

Any insight would be very welcome!

Many thanks,
R

hihi rolandino,

It is a great observation- I have been running pd on 11.04 Narwhal and it is the same on my system, i never noticed the cursor selection! Have you tried just patching anyway? I never noticed because I can patch normally, it simply displays a forbidding cursor.

Hi Sunji,

I have tried patching anyway, doesn't work .. bah. Have resorted to Windows, which all works fine (so far), so will go with that for now.

Thanks,
R

i'm having this same problem of not being able to 'connect' objects, in every version of Ubuntu i tried - 8.10 , 9.10 , 10.04, 10.10.
8.10 & 10.04 were fresh installs of Ubuntu.
in Windows XP on the same machines Pd works smoothly.

(with Pd-L2ork, only available for Ubuntu, this problem doesn't exist)

rolf

big correction:
in ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) + Pdext 0.43 the cursor still changes into the hand with the no-go sign, BUT it's possible to make connections.
hurray

rolf

how do you even make PureDyne boot from usb i am not able to get it it to burn
i am able to run the windows version of pd with wine it works just great