I'm currently using Icecast 2.2 w/ streams running DarkIce, under RH. I'd like to try Ices, but so far am completely striking out. My soundcard has ALSA drivers installed, but no matter what combination of settings I use in my config file, Ices won't start and I get the error: "input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input module "alsa" Can anyone give me direction on where to look, or try to tweak? As I said, I know ALSA is working, because I'm running streams as I type this under DarkIce. I've even tried stopping DarkIce and running Ices, but no matter what I always get the same error. Thanks for any help. Seth
On 8/2/05, Seth McTigh <kleptein@hotmail.com> wrote:> I'm currently using Icecast 2.2 w/ streams running DarkIce, under RH. I'd like > to try Ices, but so far am completely striking out. My soundcard has ALSA > drivers installed, but no matter what combination of settings I use in my config > file, Ices won't start and I get the error: > > "input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input module "alsa"This is a somewhat confusing message. I'll change it for the next version. Anyway, what it means is "Couldn't find an input module named 'alsa'" - which means your ices installation was built without alsa support. You'll need to rebuild it with this support. Mike
On 8/2/05, Michael Smith <mlrsmith@gmail.com> wrote:> On 8/2/05, Seth McTigh <kleptein@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I'm currently using Icecast 2.2 w/ streams running DarkIce, under RH. I'd like > > to try Ices, but so far am completely striking out. My soundcard has ALSA > > drivers installed, but no matter what combination of settings I use in my config > > file, Ices won't start and I get the error: > > > > "input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input module "alsa" > > This is a somewhat confusing message. I'll change it for the next > version. Anyway, what it means is "Couldn't find an input module named > 'alsa'" - which means your ices installation was built without alsa > support. You'll need to rebuild it with this support.Oops. Misread the code when checking this, this can also mean that actually _initialising_ the module failed. However, if that were the case, usually something else would have been logged, so I'd say that alsa not being compiled in is more likely. Mike
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:21, Seth McTigh wrote:> I'm currently using Icecast 2.2 w/ streams running DarkIce, under RH. I'd like > to try Ices, but so far am completely striking out. My soundcard has ALSA > drivers installed, but no matter what combination of settings I use in my config > file, Ices won't start and I get the error: > > "input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input module "alsa" > > Can anyone give me direction on where to look, or try to tweak? As I said, I > know ALSA is working, because I'm running streams as I type this under DarkIce. > I've even tried stopping DarkIce and running Ices, but no matter what I always > get the same error.That is just a general error message, any ALSA specific failure message will be above that message, unless you haven't installed ALSA development package on your system, but then the configure would fail to find the messages. Also make sure you have ices 2.0.1 as that had a few fixes to the ALSA input module karl.