From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GgTLm-0005g6-VN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:46:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA4Libg7029392; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:44:37 GMT Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA4LgP15032571 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:42:26 GMT Received: from [23.252.116.250] (23.252.116.250) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as sergio.polini) id 452E06F400EEB357 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:41:49 +0100 From: Sergio Polini To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:41:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611042241.56613.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> X-Archives-Salt: 0f13bcd5-67c6-418c-8b34-2b2bc329f102 X-Archives-Hash: 5534ca2120899a00e5a694d87264a0e5 I'm experimenting with VMWare. I've installed VMWare Workstation (5.5.1.19175-r7 ebuild) and created a Windows Virtual Machine. Then I've installed VMWare Player (in another Gentoo partition), so I can "play" the VM I've created. It works fine. Running Internet Explorer under Linux is rather amusing ;-) Well, I've installed VMWare because I _must_ run a few Windows apps (not IE ;-)) and don't like to shutdown my Gentoo box to do that. But that is another matter... Now I have what I needed, but I can't help experimenting.... Sound does not work. Sometimes (not always) I get a message like "cannot connect to /dev/dsp". Even if I do not get that message, even if the sound card looks connected (no red "x") sound is not working. I've found a VMWare document about a wrapper: http://kb.vmware.com/vmtnkb/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1611&sliceId=SAL_Public but it looks suited for versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0.x. Moreover, I've installed it and got: [sp ~]$ vmwarearts & [1] 5669 [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object 'libvmdsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. And no sound, of course.... Any hints? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list