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