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Soichiro
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 Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject: Audio not working in VMWare Workstation with Gentoo guest |
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| The other day I installed Gentoo amd64 onto a virtual machine in VMWare, but I have been unable to get audio working in it. The VMWare settings show that the sound card is enabled, and I have the correct ALSA drivers compiled as kernel modules. I have also made sure that alsasound is started and set to start on boot and that the volume is not muted. However, I cannot get audio from any application in Gentoo to play. I am using kernel 2.6.34-r2 and Gnome desktop environment in case it is relevant, and I do have alsa set it my use flags. I just can't think of what could be causing the problem. |
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MysticPixel
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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I am having exactly the same issue... I'm pretty handy with linux, and have used gentoo for years, but this one absolutely stumps me.
The fact that I can't find anything helpful about it makes me think it's a relatively new bug.
Here's some detailed system info:
| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ uname -a
Linux gvm 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 #3 SMP Fri Jul 30 18:59:07 EDT 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.22.1.
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First, I tried it with ALSA compiled in directly; then I re-built with ALSA enabled as modules; same result. Here's the lsmod anyway (note that the ens1371 driver is compiled into the kernel)
| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 28128 0
snd_mixer_oss 10467 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 20876 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4765 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 36963 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 4649 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
vmhgfs 30417 0
vmci 21399 0
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ALSA sees the sound card properly:
| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0x2080, irq 16
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| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ cat /proc/asound/devices
2: : timer
3: [ 0- 0]: raw midi
4: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
5: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
6: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
7: [ 0] : control
8: : sequencer
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...and so does aplay, it would seem:
| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 0: ES1371/1 [ES1371 DAC2/ADC]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 1: ES1371/2 [ES1371 DAC1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
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| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ aplay -L
default:CARD=AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC
Front speakers
rear:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC1
Rear speakers
surround40:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
iec958:CARD=AudioPCI,DEV=0
Ensoniq AudioPCI, ES1371 DAC2/ADC
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
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But, I get no playback, just a short click-pop (like a few samples are getting dumped into the buffer), then silence:
| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
underrun!!! (at least -631944736.560 ms long)
underrun!!! (at least -631944736.560 ms long)
underrun!!! (at least -631944736.560 ms long)
underrun!!! (at least -631944736.560 ms long)
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If I specify a device, it's basically the same thing, but the error's a bit different:
| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ aplay --device=front /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
underrun!!! (at least 0.003 ms long)
underrun!!! (at least 0.002 ms long)
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| Code: | mysticpixel@gvm ~ $ aplay --device=rear /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
ALSA lib setup.c:555:(add_elem) Cannot obtain info for CTL elem (MIXER,'AC97 2ch->4ch Copy Switch',0,0,0): No such file or directory
aplay: main:608: audio open error: No such file or directory
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MysticPixel
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| Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Tried a new VM with the 10.1 LiveDVD and I got the same error...
This link: http://www.noiseave.com/2010/02/gentoo-problems-with-sound-vmware/
seems to indicate that this is a problem with kernels newer than 2.6.30-r6... the latest install CD came up with 2.6.34-gentoo-r1, but the 10.1 LiveDVD comes up with 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 and I see the same problem. So maybe it's necessary to go back even further? |
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