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 1GgVX7-0000yD-Ep for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:06:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA503asx029683; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 00:03:36 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA4NxIFM023990 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:59:18 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a4so680467nfc for ; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:59:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=njz84/lLbQKsg8KwRTd529VKlOM5G8OZ+lr0lz8Of2e7dOE/FsNoP+1hOmQrxZgtDAQ/Ej3xllhoV31ukwh7X2JB4/cGq5Yx71BqXpIBoxSwKbQyD1AUSNd7V0MuR/F1aRApX5bjoX6JWbXc9pDJp5huWKMfagMo0N+Yl0IbRmE= Received: by 10.82.126.19 with SMTP id y19mr1056567buc.1162684757590; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.3 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 15:59:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640611041559m6f1d48d6ife4806db4186aa03@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 16:59:17 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound In-Reply-To: <200611042241.56613.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200611042241.56613.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 19db5187efcfa141 X-Archives-Salt: d8ab087f-5d72-43dd-971f-b3b44419153d X-Archives-Hash: 3e3bae2c369bb2b5cc978c9c7d2b5991 On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini wrote: > 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: The problem is that /dev/dsp is the legacy OSS api, and does not support dmix (software mixing of audio). Thus only one application can access /dev/dsp at a time unless your card supports hardware mixing. So most likely, /dev/dsp is already in use by some app. The workaround to this is to use a wrapper such as aoss or vmware-dsp that fakes out the application when it tries to open /dev/dsp and uses another audio API instead (alsa for aoss, esd or artsd for vmware-dsp). 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: FYI, there is an ebuild available for this...emerge vmare-dsp. > [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object 'libvmdsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be > preloaded: ignored. What does ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp* report? (or whatever directory libvmdsp got installed to..) -Richard PS:The real fix for this is for VMWare to *stop* using the deprecated OSS API for sound, and implement real ALSA compatibility. I highly recommend sending this request to them! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list