Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

[Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@yahoo.it>]

Richard Fish:
> Sorry for the late reply...I've been away for a couple of days.

That's very kind of you :-)

> Hmm, looks like building this is broken on AMD64 arches...too bad.

I'll check the patch submitted by Bo.

> > testing ~ # ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp.so
> > ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for
> > `/usr/lib/libvmdsp.so'
> >         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0
> > (0x00002b944790f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2
> > (0x00002b9447a25000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
> > (0x00002b9447b29000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> > (0x0000555555554000)
>
> Ah, libvmdsp.so is a 64-bit library.  I am pretty sure that vmware
> is still distributed as a 32-bit application, so yeah, preloading
> 64-bit libraries won't work.

Sorry, but... are you sure that a 32-vs-64 bit compatibility problem 
can vanish when I run "aoss vmware" as root?
Sound works when I am root...

Sergio
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