Vmware woes!!

trumee · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 551 Location: London,UK

1. Whenever i try to use my Creative Webcam Vista , vmware4 return that usb device is trying to use a asynchronous mode which the current vmware does not suport. Is there any way to circumvent it or is there any webcam which works in vmware?

2. How do i enable my onboard i845 (snd-intel8x0 ) sound card in vmware.

Thanks

FxChiP · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 103

About the onboard sound: is the sound module being loaded? I think there might also be something in the kernel that may help - be sure to check the info for every card.

What I've found to help at times is if you go into a Windows installation and read some of the INF files for your driver, you'll find something in there that refers to another company and chipset

i.e. my Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II's INF files show information for a Creative CS46xx (compatible, at least) sound card. So that's the driver I use in Linux.

Hope this helps. Of course, if the sound is exclusively made by only one company and that company's not in the kernel, chances are with the current state of kernel development that you'll be waiting at least a year

H0bb3z · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject:

If linux is in the VMware virtual machine, you need to use the virtual machine specifications for the sound driver. Vmware 4 uses Creative Labs Sound Blaster AudioPCI (MIDI input, game controllers and joysticks not supported), but I have no idea if your USB device will be supported in a virtual machine.

VMWare's support docs don't mention anything about USB:
http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/
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