FC5: Audio server not working properly on HP workstation

[Gilbert Sebenste]

Hello all,

I hope someone can help me out here, as this is a real stickler of a 
problem.

I want to simulcast (live stream via mp3) 4 NOAA Weather Radio stations 
that are broadcast locally. Fine...I install Icecast and Darkice on all 4 
machines. 3 of the machines are identical: using a SB Live! 5.1 sound card 
on a P4 3 ghz machine and 1.5 GB of RAM, all is well, using an ASUS 
motherboard from SW Technologies. The streaming works fine on all 3 
machines.

But a 4th machine is different. It has only 512 MB of RAM, comes from HP, 
and uses an HDA Intel, Chip: Realtek ALC260 sound card. I can hear the 
audio from the internal speaker when I crank it using alsamixer (and I 
did check the inputs on alsamixer; the radio is connected to the 
microphone jack, and the occasional skipping audio I get indicates that 
part is configured OK). Using the same settings as the other 
machines, the audio either "skips" or doesn't come across at all. I am 
wondering:

Is it the Intel sound card? Should I get a new SB Live! card?

Is it because I only have 512 MB of RAM?

Is it something else?

Icecast error logs show no errors. Access logs show normal (x's are in 
place of IP's):

127.0.0.1 - - [15/Aug/2006:10:59:19 -0500] "SOURCE /wx13 HTTP/1.0" 
200 19 "-" "DarkIce/0.14 (http://darkice.sourceforge.net/)" 263
131.1xx.xx.xx - - [15/Aug/2006:10:59:19 -0500] "GET /wx13 HTTP/1.1" 
200 2084831 "-" "NSPlayer/11.0.5358.4827 WMFSDK/11.0" 253

Comments? Any help greatly appreciated. Stumped...

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
(My opinions only!)                                                  ******
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