FC5: Audio server not working properly on HP workstation

[Edward Dekkers]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> 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?
> 

I would say this is the likely culprit as I've just set up Knoppmyth on 
a few Intel D945 boards with HDA and also had problems.

HOWEVER.

Updating those machines to the latest ALSA soon fixed the problem. It's 
a pain in the behind but it works and is definitely worth it. The Intel 
HDA is as good if not better than Creative's effort. It truly is HD sound.

> Is it because I only have 512 MB of RAM?

Not likely

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

Regards,
Ed.

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