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? > > George > > At 11:26 AM 1/11/2007 -0600, Thomas D. Uram wrote: > >> A couple comments below... >> >> On 1/11/07 8:38 AM, Tom Coffin wrote: >> >>> 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: >>> >>>>> 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 >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ---===<<<<<<<((((((([[[[[[[*]]]]]]])))))))>>>>>>>===--- >>>>>>> >>>>> ___________________________________________________________ >>>>> Tom Coffin .......................... tcof...@ncsa.uiuc.edu >>>>> >>>>> NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 >>>>> 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 >>>>> Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 >>>>> >>>>> _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin >>>>> >>> ___________________________________________________________ >>> Tom Coffin .......................... tcof...@ncsa.uiuc.edu >>> >>> NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 >>> 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 >>> Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 >>> >>> _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin >>> >>> > > >