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From: Sergio Polini <sp_rm_it@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:43:48
Message-Id: 200611072138.22333.sp_rm_it@yahoo.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound by Richard Fish
1 Richard Fish:
2 > Sorry for the late reply...I've been away for a couple of days.
3
4 That's very kind of you :-)
5
6 > Hmm, looks like building this is broken on AMD64 arches...too bad.
7
8 I'll check the patch submitted by Bo.
9
10 > > testing ~ # ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp.so
11 > > ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for
12 > > `/usr/lib/libvmdsp.so'
13 > > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0
14 > > (0x00002b944790f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2
15 > > (0x00002b9447a25000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
16 > > (0x00002b9447b29000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
17 > > (0x0000555555554000)
18 >
19 > Ah, libvmdsp.so is a 64-bit library. I am pretty sure that vmware
20 > is still distributed as a 32-bit application, so yeah, preloading
21 > 64-bit libraries won't work.
22
23 Sorry, but... are you sure that a 32-vs-64 bit compatibility problem
24 can vanish when I run "aoss vmware" as root?
25 Sound works when I am root...
26
27 Sergio
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