Re: [SLE] VMware WS eaudio on SuSE 9.2?

From: Michael W Cocke (cocke_at_catherders.com)
Date: 01/25/05

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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:39:31 -0500

    On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:13:31 -0600, you wrote:

    >On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:47, Michael W Cocke wrote:
    >> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:14:14 -0600, you wrote:
    >> >On Monday 24 January 2005 20:45, Michael W Cocke wrote:
    >> >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:26:09 -0600, you wrote:
    >> >> >On Monday 24 January 2005 18:35, Michael W Cocke wrote:
    >> >> >> Just curious - is the audio in vmware workstation working under SuSE
    >> >> >> 9.2 for anyone? I've futzed with it for hours, tried VMware tech
    >> >> >> support, yada yada. No audio.
    >> >> >>
    >> >> >> Mike-
    >> >> >
    >> >> >have you tried:
    >> >> >$esddsp vmware
    >> >> >
    >> >> >Sunny
    >> >>
    >> >> No changes, but it was a good idea, thanks.
    >> >> Still pages and pages of:
    >> >>
    >> >> CopyToBuffer: want to copy 512, but have 0 bytes avail
    >> >> SOUND: dsp(171) write error: No such device
    >> >> SOUND: dsp(171) write error: No such device
    >> >>
    >> >> Yet /dev/dsp exists and its a=rwx
    >> >
    >> >/dev/dsp should be a link to a real device like /dev/dsp0 (on my 9.1
    >> > system). I have no 9.2 handy now.
    >> >
    >> >who is the owner and what are the permissions of that /dev/dspx?
    >>
    >> Hmmm. That's odd. Here's the info as of a few minutes ago, when I
    >> haven't been fooling with it for a few hours.
    >>
    >> ls -l /dev/dsp*
    >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 22 13:45 /dev/dsp -> dsp0
    >> crw------- 1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 2 04:38 /dev/dsp0
    >> crw------- 1 root audio 14, 19 Oct 2 04:38 /dev/dsp1
    >> crw------- 1 root audio 14, 35 Oct 2 04:38 /dev/dsp2
    >> crw------- 1 root audio 14, 51 Oct 2 04:38 /dev/dsp3
    >> crw-rw---- 1 root root 55, 0 Oct 2 04:38 /dev/dsp56k
    >>
    >> What I'm finding interesting was that when I checked it yesterday
    >> (when I was actively trying things), everything was rwxrwxrwx (owners
    >> etc. were the same). I wonder how and when it changed? and WHY?
    >>
    >> Oh well - as it turns out, it doesn't matter - I set them all back to
    >> rwxrwxrwx and nothing changed.
    >>
    >> I'm really regretting having purchased vmware at this point - the
    >> whole idea was to be able to load my mp3 player without having to go
    >> to windows. It used to work, IIRC, under SuSE 9.1
    >>
    >
    >You don't have to change them all. On my system:
    >sunny@linux:~> ls -l /dev/dsp*
    >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-10-05 22:29 /dev/dsp -> dsp0
    >crw------- 1 sunny audio 14, 3 2004-04-06 08:27 /dev/dsp0
    >crw------- 1 sunny audio 14, 19 2004-04-06 08:27 /dev/dsp1
    >crw------- 1 sunny audio 14, 35 2004-04-06 08:27 /dev/dsp2
    >crw------- 1 sunny audio 14, 51 2004-04-06 08:27 /dev/dsp3
    >crw-rw---- 1 root root 55, 0 2004-04-06 08:27 /dev/dsp56k

    Same as mine.

    >Also, make sure your user belongs to "audio" group. As well, go in the Control
    >Center/Sound&Multimedia/Sound System. There on General Tab is Auto-Suspend
    >section. Enable Auto-Suspend, and make the idle time something small, like 1
    >or 2 secs.

    Already did that.

    >And ... this is stupid, but just need to ask, have you installed VMWare Tools
    >on your guest system?

    8-)> Yes.

    >Btw, what you mean to load your MP3 player? What is it? Why not use something
    >linux native, or wine?

    I've tried Musicmatch jukebox with wine... It _ALMOST_ works.
    <sigh>. And I've got no choice about using MM - if I want to put MP3
    files into the player, I need to use MM.

    MM has a 'portable manager' module that a whole bunch of MP3 player
    manufacturers have signed up to use for the desktop componant of their
    portables. RCA, Thompson, Compaq, and a whole slew others. My wife
    and I use RCA Lyras - I have the original model, she has the newest
    one.

    Aside from that, there's another reason we can't scrap MM. I have a
    large music system here - Edna server, dedicated computer wired into
    the house stereo, and so on - I've loaded every bit of music we had -
    from vinyl and 8" reels onward, over 10K tracks - into it. And MM is
    what we use for the library manager. If it's down to rebuilding all
    of that or using windows, it's hello windows - as much as I don't want
    to.

    I'd infinitely prefer to get vmware to work properly.

    Mike- 

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