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   From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   askar.bektassov@gmail.com wrote:   
   > it's been a long time I've not been using vmware on my gentoo box...   
   > long time ago, I was able to make it use alsa properly (making a   
   > wrapper script using aoss or LD_PRELAODing the libaoss)...   
   >   
   > Obviously, after all this time I lost the wrapper: but that is not   
   > what I would really like to do. Did someone found a nicer way to get   
   > rid of that annoying dsp locking issue?   
   >   
   > I found out that now exists /dev/adsp - can that be exploited?   
      
   There's a package called "vmware-dsp" in portage with description:   
   "Allows you to use VMware Workstation with ESD and ARTS.  I didn't look   
   up the details of what it does and how it works though.   
      
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