Sound under VMWare [was: Mouse fix]

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue May 19 23:37:55 UTC 2009


Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> OK - So what's the PulseAudio device? Or the ALSA device? If I can
> re-direct to there, I might make some good progress...

They are not devices. Only the obsolete OSS (Open Sound System) API uses
devices. You need to actually use a library to talk to ALSA or PulseAudio,
which may be why some proprietary software still doesn't support it out of
the box and why hacks like padsp are needed.

        Kevin Kofler




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