[AG-TECH] Realtek and rat crashing

[Thomas D. Uram]

Commenting that out will not cause any problems (yet), as I don't know of
any applications that use the site id yet.  Eventually it will likely be 
used for
associating video streams and audio streams with a site, at which time
commenting that out would cause a problem.

Tom


On 1/11/07 2:18 PM, George Estes wrote:
>   When I try to run the UCL 4.3 RAT from 3.0 I get an address error related to -S.  If we comment out the "pass public id as site id" section in AudioService.py the 4.3 RAT runs fine.  Do bad things happen elsewhere when we comment out that section?
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> George
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> At 11:26 AM 1/11/2007 -0600, Thomas D. Uram wrote:
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>> A couple comments below...
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>> On 1/11/07 8:38 AM, Tom Coffin wrote:
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>>> so - yesterday the soundblaster pcmcia card came and
>>> I installed it and am testing it out. Initially, everything
>>> was working great - so I left it up over night. When I
>>> came in, in the morning, rat had frozen again - as it was
>>> doing with the realtech card - I disabled and re-enabled and
>>> the freeze came much faster. I then noted that I was
>>> still using the rat 4.22... I thought I had copied the latest rat
>>> into bin and the zip folder.
>>>
>>> So, I tried the latest UCL Rat 4.3 solo - when I run that by itself
>>> (connecting to one of the NCSA ag3 venues) it works fine
>>> so I tried to copy over the rats in bin and in the zip folder again
>>> but the venue still starts up a 4.2 version of rat - is
>>> there another instance somewhere which I need to copy
>>> the new rats into?
>>>       
>> The rat executables are in your ~/.AccessGrid3/local_services/AudioService
>> directory (or c:\documents and settings\<you>\accessgrid3\local_services\AudioService.
>> There is a command-line compatibility issue between the AG
>> rat and the UCL rat, so you can't just drop the UCL rat into
>> place.  They are planning to fix that by supporting the new option
>> in a future release.
>>     
>>> Also, I notice that the default configuration always lists
>>> my video service but it always comes up as disabled - no matter
>>> how many times i save the config after enabling
>>>       
>> That setting is in user preferences (tools->preferences->mynode).
>> You may have to stretch the window larger, but at the bottom, you'll
>> see a checkbox for 'enable video'.  Check it and save preferences.
>>     
>>>
>>> At 10:47 AM 1/9/2007, you wrote:
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>>>>> At 09:57 AM 1/9/2007, George Estes wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Thanks Tom,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I'm looking at trying a PCI-X card, since I do have an empty PCI-X slot.  Either the Sound Blaster X-Fi or the M-Audio card look like possibilities.  Although I'm not either will work with RAT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> George
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At 08:45 AM 1/9/2007 -0600, Tom Coffin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> hi George - I had the same problms...
>>>>>>> am going to try out the new soundblaster
>>>>>>> pcmcia card - if that doesn't work I was
>>>>>>> going to try the soundblaster external card which connects
>>>>>>> by usb.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried updating the rat from UCL and that didn't help
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> not sure why rat and realtek don't work together
>>>>>>> the audio works fine on other apps
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, George Estes wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    > Anyone,
>>>>>>>    >
>>>>>>>    >   I see an old thread about RAT crashing with Realtek drivers.  Does anyone know if that problem has been fixed?  I have a new machine with the latest drivers for an onboard Realtek card and after a period of time RAT becomes unresponsive.  Changing venues causes it to become responsive again.  Of course it's been running for two hours now without hanging.  Has anyone found a solution other than adding another sound card?  Or does anyone know of an affordable PCI-X sound card?
>>>>>>>    >
>>>>>>>    > Thanks,
>>>>>>>    > George
>>>>>>>    >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>> Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
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>>> Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu
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