[AG-TECH] AG 2.3

[Steve Gallo]

Hi George,

Which AG RPMs did you use?  I'm running RHEL3 on my audio and video
machines and WinXP on my display machine.  I used the RPMs from the
University of Queensland site at

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~grangenet/ag_fedora/

One thing to note is that the rat in those packages needs to have
the ALSA sound drivers installed (it looks for /proc/asound/version
and dies if it doesn't find it).  Once I installed the ALSA sound drivers
(and unmuted the volume!) Rat works well.  I'm using a service certificate
for both audio and video machines so that the AGServiceManager.py can
be run at boot and needed to make some changes to the /etc/init.d/agsm
script in order to get it to run properly.  I will attach my notes.

I haven't had any problems with connecting to the audio and video
machines from the display machine.

It does take me quite a while to change venues as well.

Steve


> 
> When we then run the venue client on the windows xp machine, first of
> all the configuration doean's load the display machine in the service
> managers (which we DID specify in the setup, probably another small
> bug).  We had to go manually add it to the service managers, and add
> the video consumer service.  After tinkering with it, we finally got
> the video machine and display machine somewhat working.  However, the
> audio machine, even though it shows the audio service enabled in the
> node management on the display machine, no rat ever appears on the
> audio machine.  There are, however, 3 rat processes listed with the
> one labeled rat-media defunct (zombie process).
> 
> 1. In this setup where does the rat show up? on the audio machine
> correct?  Any ideas why it might be dying?  Permission on the audio
> devices are 666 and shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> 2. Why does the venue client take so long to run and change rooms? 
> Does this happen to everyone, or should I be looking for problems? 
> (by long i mean, on the order of 30+ seconds).
> 
> TIA, 
> Cheers.
> 
> -- 
> We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double
> sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the
> rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
> 
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