After installing Slackware 14 as a Guest OS in VMWare Player and proceeded the installation of VMTools, I don't have the sound played. I think that the following outputs show things are quite normal, but I might be forgetting something important. Alsamixer showed me the Master volume setting is up and it let me no clues about what could be wrong.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

paulo@webserver:/home/paulo$ su -c "alsactl init" root
Password:
Found hardware: "ENS1371" "Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev 3" "AC97a:43525913" "0x1274" "0x1371"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

paulo@webserver:/home/paulo$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0x2040, irq 16

paulo@webserver:/home/paulo$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 1455 0
snd_seq_oss 29048 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5620 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 51265 5 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_pcm_oss 39183 0
snd_mixer_oss 15404 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ens1371 19199 2
snd_ac97_codec 113139 1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi 18825 1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device 5228 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_pcm 72864 3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_ens1371,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 7081 1 snd_pcm
snd_timer 18798 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 57796 14 snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ens1371,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm_oss,sn d_seq,snd_seq_oss
soundcore 5474 1 snd
ac97_bus 1198 1 snd_ac97_codec
gameport 7687 1 snd_ens1371
paulo@webserver:/home/paulo$

su -c "alsactl init" root ? is initializing the card with alsa?
you have no alsa modules loaded, only OSS.

So, I would
a) search if OSS is supporting that card (search the net; not a lot of success stories in the net)
b) search the ALSA configuration of that card
c) search bug reports for your card

alsa seems to work with few adaptation (pulseaudio..) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t-work-905902/
bug? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/663114

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Thanks a lot

It seems you had success. Great. Im happy.
Could you please post the full story how you achieved this?
Another person will read it, perhaps, in few months and will be happy to have a quick success by reading YOUR post.

Yes PLEASE share your solution! I'm having the EXACT same issue. I would be forever grateful.

**EDIT**
Nevermind. Turns out my issue was a simple adjustment of alsamixer. Things were muted and turned down to 2. Please do share for others though. Cheers.