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-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On >Behalf Of Darren Condon >Sent: 02 February 2007 05:22 >To: Gavin Burris >Cc: ag-t...@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-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On >Behalf Of Gavin Burris >Sent: Friday, 2 February 2007 11:58 AM >To: ag-t...@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