On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:46 -0700, Ryan Beasley wrote: > 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?
No -- only one set of tools is installed at a time. > > 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. Audio works fine with the standard-issue tools on 3.0.1, but Flash videos *always* freeze. I don't have mplayer installed yet, but I certainly can do so. I certainly can try it before installing the tools. The vmware tools do not work with 3.1.0 and FreeBSD, which is a known problem. So right now I an using just the open vm tools in 3.0.1. Here Flash does not freeze, but there currently is no audio. > 3. Install the VMware Tools as shipped with Player. Observe that audio > continues playing. I have done this, and it works, but videos freeze. The goal here is to do the more dangerous browsing on the FreeBSD VM, so that's why there is the emphasis on Flash and audio. > 4. Uninstall the VMware Tools. Observe that audio continues playing. I will check this. > 5. Install the Open VM Tools*. Observe that audio continues playing. Except that this does not work. The host gives a message that the default sound device cannot be opened. A device ID has been used that is out of range for your system. And then the audio portion of Player disconnects. I have tried some modification of the .vmx file (I can add details) but have not tried sb16 yet. No luck. > 6. Uninstall the Open VM Tools. Observe that audio continues playing. I will try this. I assume that if I don't run vmware-user from the console window that the tools will not be loaded. I can also comment out the various daemons from rc.conf and reboot. > > 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. Right. Until Gnome stabilizes (it is the first release in the 2.30 sequence) I start it from a FreeBSD console window and use "startx" with the appropriate .xinitrc file. > > 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. It is a couple of pages in. Let me post a new message, since I have done more work than was posted in that one. > > * Are you compiling and installing yourself, or are you installing from the > ports tree? I'm installing from the ports tree, and setting the full complement (four, I believe) daemons in rc.conf. Forgive me if I am a bit tardy on doing some of the work, as I am embroiled in an NIH annual report that is way overdue and has to get in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
