[AG-TECH] windows sound card woes

[Michael Miller]

We've tested the M-Audio Firewire Audiophile and it was a pretty 
straight-forward install.  The only problem I saw was that it didn't 
seem to have the same gain level compared to a SB128 which we 
normally use.  Also, we only tested it briefly, not in a real meeting.

hth

myk


At 03:14 AM 2/2/2007, Paul Bonnett wrote:
>
>I had the same problems at Rutherford labs last year, and noticed that
>the AC97 chipset based sound cards worked far better than the Creative
>(especially Audigy) cards in this application. Many motherboards come
>with this as an on-board solution, and it worked well for all our nodes.
>
>Paul Bonnett
>UKERNA
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
>Behalf Of Darren Condon
>Sent: 02 February 2007 05:22
>To: Gavin Burris
>Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] windows sound card woes
>
>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