Re: no device event controller found

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

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 <address@hidden> 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''

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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:
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here now the gnus
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>>>>> "J" == Jan Djärv <address@hidden> 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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