Tom, THANK YOU. This worked wonderfully!

Here's the juicy bits for those whom may find this thread later on.

Mint 15 - Fully updated as of 21 Jun 2013


SDR: HackRF and RTL E4000 tuner dongle.

gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro
4.7.3-1ubuntu1'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.7 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
--enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.7
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
--enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib
--enable-objc-gc --with-cloog --enable-cloog-backend=ppl
--disable-cloog-version-check --disable-ppl-version-check
--enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1)

gnuradio-config-info -v
3.7.0rc0

VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 570
Rev. 2] (rev a1)

Using the proprietary nvidia driver:

nvidia-310 310.44-0ubuntu2 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel
module and VDPAU library

python -V
Python 2.7.4

3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Standard master git branch of gr-osmosdr.

Below, in the thread is more detail.


Thanks again to all whom offered suggestions!

Mark






On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Volker Schroer <address@hidden> wrote:
>* Do you see any messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/dmesg ?*
>**
>* Am 21.06.2013 15:43, schrieb Crypto.Troop:*
>*>*
>*> Hi Volker,*
>*>*
>*> Yes sir, I've added throttles, and tried all of the provided demo's. I've*
>*> also done more research, and further down the list are people talking about*
>*> the same thing...*
>*>*
>*>*
>*> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2013-06/msg00373.html*
>*>*
>*>*
>*> so I have hope it's not just me... :)*
>*>*
>*>*
>*> Thanks,*
>*>*
>*> Mark*
>*>*
>*>*
>*>> May be a silly question, but does your flow graph contain >a throttle*
>*>> block ?*
>*>>*
>*>> -- Volker*
>*>*
>*>*
>*>*
>*>*
>*> Am 21.06.2013 04:55, schrieb Crypto.Troop:*
>*>*
>*>     Hi,*
>*>*
>*>     I just installed GNURADIO from git, onto a brand new install of Mint*
>*> 15.*
>*>     I followed the following instructions:*
>*>     http://bgamari.github.io/posts/2013-06-15-hackrf.html*
>*>*
>*>     gnuradio-config-info -v*
>*>     3.7.0git-143-gad1d52fd*
>*>*
>*>     With Python 2.7, I was able to get everything compiled and installed.*
>*>     The CMakeLists.txt in GNURADIO I had to tweak line(168)*
>*>     to: find_package(PythonLibs 2.7) for it to include Python support.*
>*>*
>*>     My environment vars:*
>*>     PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:*
>*>     PYTHONPATH=:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages*
>*>*
>*>     I built GNURADIO with the following cmake:*
>*>     cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2.7*
>*>     -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python2.7*
>*>     -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1 ../*
>*>*
>*>     I fire up gnuradio-companion and try a simple example dial_tone.grc. I*
>*>     click generate, then execute, I see the standard "Executing*
>*>     ..."/tmp/dial_tone.py" "Using Volk machine: svx_64_mmx"  etc... No*
>*> other*
>*>     errors. My problem is, no QT/WX GUI elements show up.*
>*>*
>*>     I built a simple grc file with a QT slider(and nothing else), and this*
>*>     worked.*
>*>     I tried a basic signal source, through a throttle right into a QT FFT*
>*>     GUI element. The grc runs, no errors, yet the physical display of the*
>*>     FFT fails.*
>*>     I have on another box gnuradio 3.6.5 and all of this worked fine. I*
>*>     compared qt/wx/python debs and verified both machines have similar*
>*> packages.*
>*>*
>*>     The key common factor in this problem is if i remove the signal*
>*> sources*
>*>     and sinks, the QT/WX basic sliders will show... Perhaps there is*
>*>     something wrong with my version of gnuradio and how it handles*
>*>     inputs/outputs, killing GUI display? I've also tried compiling against*
>*>     python3, 3.3 and 3.3m...no luck.*
>*>*
>*>     Is there a way I can enable an extra layer of debug into GRC for me to*
>*>     see what it's doing??*
>*>     I've tried running /tmp/dial_tone.py directly and it run's, but no*
>*> audio*
>*>     or gui elements display. Another hint which may help, is a basic audio*
>*>     source to audio sink, set to "pulse" does not output audio into my*
>*>     speakers. The audio does work with the OS audio tests, and I am*
>*> running*
>*>     pulseaudio.*
>*>*
>*>     I would like to stay with the latest GNURADIO simply to support my*
>*>     HackRf board, in which the HackRf gr-osmosdr library seems to only*
>*>     support the latest version. I tried with 3.6.5 and it failed to*
>*> compile...*
>*>*
>*>     Thank you for any insight,*
>*>     Mark*


>By the way, I just pushed a fix to master that should corr>ect this problem.
>
>>Tom
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