Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

[Sergio Polini]

Richard Fish:
> The workaround to this is to use a wrapper such as aoss or
> vmware-dsp that fakes out the application when it tries to open
> /dev/dsp and uses another audio API instead (alsa for aoss, esd or
> artsd for vmware-dsp).

Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have:
- emerged alsa-oss
- chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.*
- created a script:

#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware &

Now:
i) if I run the script as myself, sound doesn't work and I get
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: 
ignored.
I get the same result if I run "aoss vmware".
As to ldd /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0:
        libalsatoss.so.0 => /usr/lib/libalsatoss.so.0 
(0x00002b09ff97f000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002b09ffa89000)
        libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0x00002b09ffcb4000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00002b09ffe8b000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b09fffe0000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b0a000e4000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)

ii) if I run the script as root, sound works!

So, it looks like a matter of permissions, but I can't guess what I 
should change. I hope that you can ;-)

Cheers
Sergio
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