On 07/12/2010 05:51 PM, Frank Jahnke wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 11:10 -0700, Ryan Beasley wrote: > >> The VMware Tools have no effect on sound for FreeBSD guests. > > But they do. The VMware-issued tools work for 3.0.1, and sound works. > Use the open vm tools and it doesn't. So the latter do have a > (negative!) effect. > >> I recommend checking out VMware's Player discussion forum instead. The >> Workstation and Player devs keep an eye on that one. ;) >> http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/player > > I have, and there has been no reply at all. >
I'm pretty sure something else is involved here. Are you, in the same session, switching between working and busted audio via switching between official Tools and the Open VM Tools in the same session, sans reboots? For example: 1. Boot the FreeBSD VM without any VMware Tools packages installed. 2. Fire up mplayer and start playing audio. Perform all the following while audio is still playing. 3. Install the VMware Tools as shipped with Player. Observe that audio continues playing. 4. Uninstall the VMware Tools. Observe that audio continues playing. 5. Install the Open VM Tools*. Observe that audio continues playing. 6. Uninstall the Open VM Tools. Observe that audio continues playing. Last thing: Make sure you're running Player while logged in on a local console. Don't use rdp/rdesktop to reach the Windows host. Okay, really last thing: Can you track down the thread you started in the Player forums about this? I wasn't able to find anything when searching for "FreeBSD sound". I want to pass that over to one of our audio backend staff. * Are you compiling and installing yourself, or are you installing from the ports tree? -- Ryan Beasley :: MTS, Guest Components - Applications :: VMware, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
