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kjh_ngisd



Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:41 am    Post subject: Sound under VMWare Reply with quote

First of all, I LOVE the distro -- small (damn small!), fast, complete, really spiffy.
Ok, now the issue. I'm running it as a VMware guest under windowsXP (my company makes me). And i'm able to do everything except get the sound card to work.
I looked on VMware's site and they say that VMWare will emulate this sound card:

I/O: 0x220
IRO: 5
8-bit DMA: 1
16-bit DMA: 7
MPU-401 I/O address: disabled

ok, so i run
modprobe sd io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=7

and i get the famous *it broke* error messge:

/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: insmod sb failed

dmesg gives:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
sb: dsp reset failed.


So my questions are:

1. is there anyone else running DSL under VMWare who has the sound card working?
and
2. is there anyone who isn't running VMware but has resolved a similar issue?

thanks in advance
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J. A. Streich



Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:15 pm    Post subject: Thoughts... Reply with quote

I have sound working in DSL (not DSL-N) working with sound in VMWare Server (out of the box). I have DSL-N in another Virtual Machine, but haven't had a desire to test sound (we don't need it).
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kjh_ngisd



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Thoughts... Reply with quote

[quote="J. A. Streich"]I have sound working in DSL (not DSL-N) working with sound in VMWare Server (out of the box). I have DSL-N in another Virtual Machine, but haven't had a desire to test sound (we don't need it).[/quote]


Thanks for the info. Good to know it works anyway.
Would it be too much trouble to ask you to send me a snip from your /etc/modules.conf file?

I'm just looking for the sound area, something like:
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x300

That way i can compare it to mine and see if i'm just off.
thank you
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J. A. Streich



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:27 pm    Post subject: Well... Reply with quote

I don't have any sound related "options lines" The only line is the alias for the sound device:

alias via82cxxx via82cxxx_audio

Then, again, it is DSL and not DSL-Not!
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