ok, this time using the right binary, and still getting the same message:
** (emacs:1551): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.
this occurs frequently, for example when loading GNUS, where there
should be no sound events although there would be one IMAP call;
before GNUS completely loads, I get about a dozen occurences of this
message to the stderr in the terminal window that launched emacs.
there is nothing suspicous in the *Messages* (posted below debug info)
however, there _is_ something wrong with alsaplay:
$ alsaplay /usr/share/sounds/fx/buzz.wav
AlsaPlayer 0.99.53
(C) 1999-2001 Andy Lo A Foe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others.
I could not find a suitable output module on your
system. Make sure they're in "/usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/".
Use the -o parameter to select one.
failed to load output add-on. Exiting...
so perhaps this really is an ALSA issue. I'll look into that -- sound
appears to work fine, but clearly alsaplay does not
DEBUG INFO:
In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.11)
of 2007-05-18 on maya.teledyn.com
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--with-x' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: en
value of $LC_CTYPE: en_CA
value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_CA
value of $LC_MONETARY: en_CA
value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_CA
value of $LC_TIME: en_CA
value of $LANG: en_CA
locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Summary
Minor modes in effect:
delete-selection-mode: t
pc-selection-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<help-echo> M-x g n u s <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-2>
C-n SPC <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>
Recent messages:
Loading subst-gb2312...done
Loading subst-big5...done
Loading subst-jis...done
Parsing BBDB... (frobnicating...done)
No more unread articles
Loading gnus-bcklg...done
Loading gnus-async...done
Loading smiley...done
Loading gnus-cite...done
Loading emacsbug...done
*Messages*
("emacs")
Loading /home/garym/.gnuemacs/init.el (source)...
Configuring for GNU Emacs
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading desktop...done
Loading /home/garym/emacs/festival.el (source)...done
Loading sendmail...done
Loading font-lock...done
Loading time...done
Loading server...done
Loading gnuserv-compat...done
Loading gnuserv...done
all set ... lets go emacs!
Loading /home/garym/.gnuemacs/init.el (source)...done
Loading /home/garym/.gnuemacs/custom.el (source)...
Loading pc-select...done
Loading delsel...done
Loading /home/garym/.gnuemacs/custom.el (source)...done
Loading cl-seq...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type <f1> C-p. [2 times]
Loading gnus...done
Loading gnus-start...
Loading easymenu...done
Loading gnus-start...done
Loading /home/garym/emacs/nnir.el (source)...done
Loading gnus-demon...done
here now the gnus
Loading gnus-agent...done
Reading /home/garym/.newsrc.eld...
Reading active file from 192.168.10.4 via nntp...
Reading active file via nnml...
Opening nnml server...done
nnml: Reading incoming mail from directory...
Loading cl-macs...done
Loading byte-opt...done
nnml: Reading incoming mail from file...
nnml: Reading incoming mail from pop...
Loading pop3...
Warning: defvar ignored because pop3-password is let-bound
Loading pop3...done
Retrieving message 1 of 1 from ticat...
Wrote /home/garym/Mail/lists/p2p/dimeadozen/9004
nnml: Reading incoming mail from file...
nnml: Reading incoming mail (1 new)...done
Reading active file via nnml...done
Generating the cache active file...done
Loading parse-time...done
35 new newsgroups have arrived
Loading gnus-topic...done
Loading edmacro...done
Retrieving newsgroup: nnml:lists.gnu.bug.pretest...
Loading disp-table...done
Loading gnus-ml...done
Fetching headers for nnml:lists.gnu.bug.pretest...done
Loading subst-ksc...done
Loading subst-gb2312...done
Loading subst-big5...done
Loading subst-jis...done
Parsing BBDB... (frobnicating...done)
No more unread articles
Loading gnus-bcklg...done
Loading gnus-async...done
Loading smiley...done
Loading gnus-cite...done
>>>>> "J" == Jan Djärv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This is new with the emacs that I built from the CVS sources a
>> few days ago, I think it may be related to the gnus agent doing
>> background polling of the IMAP host, but I periodically get the
>> following message in the console window:
>>
>> ** (emacs-22-1-50:2180): WARNING **: failure: no device event
>> controller found.
This looks like an ALSA (i.e. sound) message. Does alsaplay work on your
system?
J> Jan D.
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