[CentOS] sound problem

Tue Feb 3 15:43:04 UTC 2009
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

Paolo Supino wrote:
> Hi
> 
>   I can't wait until CentOS 5.3 is released :-( The bigger issue is that I
> also have windows xp running as a guest inside a vmware server (version 2)
> and since vmware doesn't discover the audio devices properlly (because linux
> claims to not have them), there's no sound in Windows ...
> 

I can't help with your Windows problems. I have no idea how VMware 
handles audio. In VMware Server 1.0.x, a WinXP guest shows no audio even 
on a CentOS host with fully working audio for me. YMMV.

If you really can't wait for CetOS-5.3 then you have a couple options, 
none supported by CentOS:

1. Grab the upstream 5.3 -128 kernel (which contains the alsa-drivers), 
and alsa-libs and -utils SRPM packages, rebuild and test. This will give 
you an indication if CentOS-5.3 will support your audio when released.

2. Grab the latest alsa-driver tarball from their website, compile and 
install.