Sound under VMWare [was: Mouse fix]

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:20 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:26 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > > This says that you should be able to use Pulse Audio directly if you
> > > manually change the settings for your VM from Auto Detect to /dev/dsp.
> > 
> > That's nonsense. /dev/dsp is still the OSS device, you still need padsp to
> > redirect that to PulseAudio.
> 
> OK - So what's the PulseAudio device? Or the ALSA device? If I can
> re-direct to there, I might make some good progress...

PA and ALSA do not provide a simple device node to which you can direct
sound as a stream. That's just not how they're designed. If you only
have the choice of some node to point at, that's an indication the
software only handles the OSS output format. If it handles ALSA or PA
output formats natively, it'll have appropriate choices somewhere for
these.
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