Stefan Tiedje

Just out of curiosity I installed Max 5 under wine on a recent Ubuntu 

Linux. I did expectantly get a bunch of error messages due to Pace 

probably, but the first impression is: It works...

When starting I get the following error messages (a lot of the same):

folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed

folderwatcher_endproc: error 1460 calling CancelIo

Beside these, I can call the Max help files and they seem to work...

Audio does have problems, choosing the mme driver will fail with

ad_mme: unable to open wave output device

choosing the direct sound driver first worked somehow (I got sound from 

the cycle~ help file), but opening another help file killed it. It will 

ad_directsound: error 8878000a from CreateCaptureBuffer() in 

(Don't know how to open the clue window on a Max Runtime in Linux... ;-)

I guess these error messages do mean somthing, but I don't know what.

In a way it worked better than I expected, and for sure it needs some 

This is not important at all, but I just wanted to share this 

experience. If anybody knows to what these errors might point, I'll 

Just out of curiosity I installed Max 5 under wine on a recent Ubuntu 
Linux. I did expectantly get a bunch of error messages due to Pace 
probably, but the first impression is: It works...

folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed
folderwatcher_endproc: error 1460 calling CancelIo

Beside these, I can call the Max help files and they seem to work...
Audio does have problems, choosing the mme driver will fail with

ad_mme: unable to open wave output device
ad_mme: stopping due to error

choosing the direct sound driver first worked somehow (I got sound from 
the cycle~ help file), but opening another help file killed it. It will 
now report:

ad_directsound: error 8878000a from CreateCaptureBuffer() in 
adds_allocatedrive...

I guess these error messages do mean somthing, but I don't know what.
In a way it worked better than I expected, and for sure it needs some 
tweaking...

This is not important at all, but I just wanted to share this 
experience. If anybody knows to what these errors might point, I'll 
appreciate...

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