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

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:37:41 -0600, you wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:39:31 -0500, Michael W Cocke wrote:

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

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On Tuesday 25 January 2005 04:47, Michael W Cocke wrote:

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:14:14 -0600, you wrote:

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On Monday 24 January 2005 20:45, Michael W Cocke wrote:

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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.

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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.

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

8-)> Yes.

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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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Once MusicMatch had a linux project, but they have abandon it. One way or another, I have found it on the web, so you may give it a try.

ftp://ftp.volftp.mondadori.com/pub/linux/x11/install-mmjb-1.43.sh

Downloading it now. If nothing else, maybe I'll learn something.

Sunny

P.S. Yes. it'll be good for VMWare to work though. But without any logfiles, and sequence of actions you perform it is really hard to go further.

I'll see what vmware support has to say, if and when they get back to me. They're taking their own time, I'll say that. I'd expected better for my $190.00 US. As for the logfiles - ARGH. The vm-support script hangs up after about 35 seconds, with no useful output. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.