see http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2009-August/654183.html for details. Looks like new udev doesn't support compat-oss modules loading so this plugin is useless without alsa support. Trivial changes: http://git.altlinux.org/people/lakostis/packages/?p=gkrellm-volume.git;a=commit;h=633ed3e3f23b7269cf80eecdc82b673dbcdef8e4
Done