Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[Michael W Cocke <cocke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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