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Sound not detected

I am trying to configure sound card in Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy from a Windows xp machine with VMware Player. I am not finding any recognized sound card. The card is onboard CMI8738/C3DX PCI.

Quote:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter
00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep snd
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

I'm still trying to solve this sound card problem. Any input is welcome.

I get this error when I try to open the volume control;

Quote:

No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

I searched for drivers at cmedia and downloaded and installed "alsa-driver-1.0.14" drivers. still no go.

Bob :confused:

It took some time but I found the solution.
I had to add these lines in the Virtual Appliance operating system folder in Windows.
In my case it is the "Ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386" folder in "My Documents\My Virtual Machines" folder. I opened the "Ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.vmx" file within the folder with Notepad and added these lines to the end of the file;

Quote:

sound.present = "TRUE"

sound.virtualDev = "es1371"

sound.fileName = "-1"

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

Reboot and hopefully this will solve your Ubuntu sound problem with VMware.