[Icecast] Help w/ ices & ALSA

Michael Smith
2005-08-02T07:58:40Z

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