CM8738 "Sound Blaster compatible"?

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:18:44PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > OK. I'm beginning to see that "Make sound work" is a little deeper than "I can
> > play CDs OK". : )
>
> Playing CDs doesn't use anything but the amplifier in the sound card.
> It really tells you nothing.
>
> > OK. There is one there, but obviously not the one Pro Tools Free likes - maybe
> > that's the one that plays CDs.
>
> Well if you use vmware 4.x it is emulating an ess1371 PCI sound card.
>
> > OK...we're assuming that that will work with the CM8738..or is that not
> > relevant?
>
> Irrelevant.  Question is: Is Linux working with the CM8738 at the
> moment?

I guess not - I can play CDs and I clicked 'Enable sound server startup' and 'Sound
Events' (which work OK - sounds when I log on, click on things, etc.) in [GNOME
footprint] > Programs > Settings > Multimedia > Sound. But as you pointed out I
guess this only means that the amplifier in the card is working.


If it is, and nothing else is using the sound (ESS, ARTS, etc)

> then VMware should be able to connect to it and emulate the SB PCI128.
>
> Did you install the vmware tools in windows yet?  If not do that.

Yeah, but that only got the video card working properly. Maybe that would let
VMware use the linux sound module if it was loaded, but I guess it's not so it
won't.

[...]

Chris


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