[AG-TECH] windows sound card woes

[Darren Condon]

Gavin,

We had the same problem early last year. Rat didn't recognize the
on-board sound device.

We then tried a series of different sound cards (including a couple of
SB's) and they all had the same RAT crashing/locking up issue. In the
end Jason Bell recommended re-installing all the AG software and we
haven't had a problem with RAT since.

I don't know why this worked for us, but it is certainly worth a try.

Regards,

Darren Condon
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
La Trobe University.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Gavin Burris
Sent: Friday, 2 February 2007 11:58 AM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: [AG-TECH] windows sound card woes

So I'm not new to this Access Grid thing, but I'm having lots of 
problems lately!

I can't get RAT to cooperate.  The integrated audio on a Dell Precision 
650 workstation would not give me audio line-in or microphone record.  I

then disabled integrated audio and threw in a Soundblaster PCI 512, but 
RAT would crash or lock up every other minute.

I then went to the store and bought a Soundblaster Audigy SE.  It gave 
me echo right on the card!  The speaker out would leak into the 
microphone in, causing the remote site to hear themselves faintly.  The 
record gain was way too low even when maxed out and boosted.  And RAT 
would _still_ crash, but only about every ten minutes.

So I'm really frustrated.  Could someone please recommend their choice 
sound card or device for use under Windows with AGtk 3.0.2?

I'm thinking about getting the M-Audio FireWire Audiophile recommended 
on the Hardware Reference.  Will RAT behave with this choice?

Cheers,
-- 
Gavin W. Burris aka 86
Senior Systems Programmer
Penn State Visualization Group