On Monday 04 February 2002 03:06 pm, you wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions, but I've tried that. When I move the volume
> > slider up and down or the balance slider side to side, all I hear is some
> > scratching sounds. Weird. Any other ideas?
> > Greg
> >
> > On Sunday 03 February 2002 06:07 pm, you wrote:
> > > "Greg Smith (by way of Greg Smith )" wrote:
> > > > Is anyone having trouble getting sound to work from within a VMWare
> > > > workstation?
> > > >
> > > > I'm running VMWare version 3.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried to configure the sound from within Linux Mandrake 8.1
> > > > using the sndconfig command in a terminal. All I can get is a very
> > > > quick noise that sounds a s if it is the start of a word.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Greg, a suggestion - just guessing :
> > > Open "Sound Mixer" (multimedia --> sound --> Sound Mixer) and try
> > > adjusting the sliders.
> > > HTH
> > > Kaj Haulrich
>
> Hmm...I remember having some sound-related probs too. It's all working
> now, so for your information, here are my settings : I've turned ALSA
> off ( Control Panel --> [root passw] --> System --> Services --> ALSA
> deselected ). Then, in the other (local - Small icon in kicker) Control
> Center --> Sound --> Sound Server, I've enabled aRts on KDE startup.
> There's a button : "Test sound" that should play the opening fanfare.
> Finally, in my "/etc/lilo.conf" the append line looks as follows :
> append=" hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount "
> Especially, the "nomount" made everything OK.
> HTK
>
> Kaj Haulrich
Below is what the lilo.conf file looks like right now. Are you saying I
should change the append line to say what you quoted above?
Greg
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" devfs=mount"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" devfs=mount failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
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