Re: new attempt to solve an old problem with gkrellmsss

>> To get console error messages start gkrellm from a terminal window  
>> and you should see something.  If ALSA can't be opened it could be  
>> because some other program already has ALSA capture opened and only  
>> one program at a time can do this.  In that case you either have to  
>> quit the other program or let gkrellmss use the esd sound server.
>Oddly, no output at all from a console start.  Even with "gkrellm -d  
>0x20000" all I get is "--- GKrellM 2.3.4 ---"
>
>> To see if some other program is using capture, run:
>>   $ lsof | grep pcm
>> and see if any are using capture:  /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c The 'c' at the  
>> end indicates it's a capture device, playback devices will end in 'p'.
>ll /dev/snd only shows by-path, seq, timer, controlC0, pcmC0D0p,  
>pcmC0D0p, pcmC0D1c, pcmC0C2p.
>lsof shows only controlC0 being used, but kmix (killing it had no  
>effect), knotify4, and gkrellm.  I suppose I can try killing knotify4,  
>but I it sounds like big problems for KDE if that is interfering.
>
>The Capture stuff is OK - but probably moot until I fix the above.
>
>I vaguely remember some issue about not finding one of the relevant  
>devices, but I am in the audio group, and /dev includes mixer, dsp,  
>audio, and the snd directory - all 660 permissions.  I also get the  
>same behavior running gkrellm as root.

I've got two things you can try:
1) Since you say you don't have a C0D0c device but do have a C0D1c device,
try this:  quit gkrellm, then edit your ~/.gkrellm2/user-config file and change the line:

   sound ALSA device plughw:0,0
to
  sound ALSA device plughw:0,1

And restart gkrellm.

If that doesn't do any good, then...

2) Can you compile a new gkrellmss?  I have a gkrellmss with additional
debugging and if you can run it the error popup should give an appropriate
error message instead of just saying "check for a console message".
It should determine if the problem is resource busy or permissions or
whatever.

In case you can, there is a tarball:

    http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/test/gkrellmss.tar.gz

Untar it somewhere, then do:

    $ cd gkrellmss
    $ make

If make succeeds run:

    $ gkrellm -p src/gkrellmss.so

and see what error message pops up.

The complication you might have in compiling gkrellmss is that you will
need to have some development packages installed:

  fftw-dev or libfftw3-dev
  libasound2-dev
  libesd0-dev         (optional, but needed for esound support)

These are the package names on Debian but should be similar for
other distributions.

Bill

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