[AG-TECH] RE: AGN OS

[Steve Gallo]

We have a node with XP as the display machine and 2 RHEL3 WS boxes
and the audio and video machines.  Things are working well, the install
required a couple of packages off of the "unsupported" cd for the
hauppage video support but everything installed pretty well.  We do have
a problem with the rat taking 99% of the cpu on the audio machine but
2.3 may fix that with the ALSA support although I haven't tried it yet.

I am _supposed_ to get RHEL3 rpms built but was having some difficulty
getting them to build and then got pulled to some other projects.  Perhaps
with 2.3 I can get them built.

Steve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Patrick Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 5:50 PM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; ag-info at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-TECH] RE: AGN OS
> 
> 
> Thank you for the information.
> 
> Is RedHat Enterprise Linux WS Version 3 supported?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Patrick Johnson
> Integrated Media Systems
> 1260 N. Fee Ana
> Anaheim, CA 92807
> office: 714-579-4100
> cell: 714-225-0666
> pjohnson at imsav.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan R. Judson [mailto:judson at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:57 PM
> To: Patrick Johnson; ag-info at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: AGN OS
> 
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> You should probably not consider building a node with 4 computers as is
> described in that document. Notice the document should be dated sometime
> in
> 1999/2000, in four years hardware has significantly changed.
> 
> The typical configuration that seems to work well for most people these
> days
> is two compuers, one running XP and serving the display (and sometimes
> audio) functionality, and the other running some variant of linux
> providing
> the video capture (and more commonly also the audio) functionality.
> There
> are choices for which linux to run, the supported variants (also on the
> agtk
> website you found) are Fedora Core, Slackware, Gentoo, and Debian.
> 
> The reason the video capture box is still better to build as linux these
> days has to do with the driver support in the software we use to capture
> and
> transmit video. It works more reliably and with less use configuration
> and
> tweaking on linux systems than windows.
> 
> For "support building this system" you're on your own. This is an open
> source project, we give you the software, documentation, manuals and
> access
> to a community (via the ag-tech mailing list) for free. We can't really
> afford to offer you more than that ;-).
> 
> --Ivan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-info at mcs.anl.gov 
> > [mailto:owner-ag-info at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Patrick Johnson
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:48 PM
> > To: ag-info at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: AGN OS
> > 
> > I've been tasked with building an Access Grid Node.  Reading 
> > the Access Grid Hardware Specification by Robert Olson, it 
> > recommends building a Display computer running windows 2000 
> > pro, a Video Capture computer running an AG distribution of 
> > Red Hat Linux, an Audio Capture computer running the AG linux 
> > distribution, and a control computer running windows 98.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I was looking a the website 
> > http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/do
> wnload.html and notice that there was support for Windows XP.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > My questions are . Is there any reason I shouldn't use 
> > Windows XP and can I use XP in place of Red Hat?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Whom should I contact for support building this system?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Patrick Johnson
> > 
> > Integrated Media Systems
> > 
> > 1260 N. Fee Ana
> > 
> > Anaheim, CA 92807
> > 
> > office: 714-579-4100
> > 
> > cell: 714-225-0666
> > 
> > pjohnson at imsav.com
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
>