Question about sound drivers.

[ashley]

Hello everyone.

My name is ashley cox, i'm a new user on this list. I'm visually impaired (completely blind) and like to experiment with computers.

I've been playing around with react OS in VMware for a while now with the help of my dad. I found that the default soundcard emulated by VMware is a SBPCI128, one of creatives soundblasters. I found a driver for all windows operating systems, and installed it on react OS. It says the installs complete. I restart the computer (although it didn't ask me to) but don't get any sound. When I go into the control panel, there is no sound device. Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

I think react OS is a great idea, just think when it's working we'll not have to go through windows activation again!

Thanks for your help and time.

Ashley

[Johannes Anderwald]

ashley schrieb:
> Hello everyone.

Hi,
> I've been playing around with react OS in VMware for a while now with 
> the help of my dad. I found that the default soundcard emulated by 
> VMware is a SBPCI128, one of creatives soundblasters. I found a driver 
> for all windows operating systems, and installed it on react OS. It 
> says the installs complete. I restart the computer (although it didn't 
> ask me to) but don't get any sound. When I go into the control panel, 
> there is no sound device. Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

When you open the audio control panel and you don't see a wave out device,
a) check under the hardware tab if there is an audio device listed. If 
not, then no audio driver has been successfully installed
b) When you dont see any wave out device, then the audio driver has 
likely failed initialization. If you can provide debugging information, 
please add the debug data to bugzilla[1] and add the failed card to 
here[2]. An Howto to provide debugging information can be found here[3], 
[4]. A list of working cards can be found at [2].

[1] http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla
[2] http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Supported_Hardware/Sound_cards
[3] http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Debugging
[4] http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/VMware#Getting_debug_output

best regards,
Johannes Anderwald