Sound under VMWare [was: Mouse fix]

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:44 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 15:57 +0000, Jon Escombe wrote:
> > I believe the problem is the removal of the OSS interface, as per the FAQ.
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_FAQ
> > 
> > In F10 I used padsp to direct the output to pulseaudio, but that's not working
> > for me in F11 (and I'm not sure whether it's even supposed to given the
> > statements in the FAQ)?
> > 
> > ERROR: ld.so: object 'libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded:
> > ignored.
> > 
> > Rega
> 
> OK- Thanks! This makes sense. I'm going to try a secondary route:
> 
> OSS --> ALSA --> Pulse Audio
> 
> If I can get something wanting to use OSS to use an OSS to ALSA plugin,
> and then have that, in turn, route to Pulse Audio, maybe I can get
> Workstation to make some noise.
> 
> Will get back to this list with results...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris

...Well, so far no dice. I found a post on another forum on how to try
and force Workstation to use ALSA instead of OSS. I did the following:

installed the alsa-oss plugin (64-bit)
updated /etc/vmware/config with the line:
   preload = "/usr/lib64/libaoss.so

Didn't work. Any other ideas on how to make applications that demand
using OSS be able to output sound on F11?

Cheers,

Chris

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