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Missing Audio Driver in Debian 10 Vmware

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John Berden

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Apr 14, 2020, 9:40:04 AM4/14/20
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Hello.
I installed Debian 10 on Vmware 15.
And I don't have an audio driver!
I hear system beeps only.
How can i fix this?
Thanks in advance!

Dan Ritter

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Apr 14, 2020, 9:50:04 AM4/14/20
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John Berden wrote:
> Hello.
> I installed Debian 10 on Vmware 15.
> And I don't have an audio driver!
> I hear system beeps only.
> How can i fix this?

It's pretty likely that Debian would use your virtualized audio
hardware if it was available, so it's probably VMWare's fault.

Does lspci -vv show you any audio hardware?

If not, it's definitely VMWare's fault. Complain to them.

If it does show you audio hardware, let us know what it is.

-dsr-

deloptes

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Apr 14, 2020, 10:40:05 AM4/14/20
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First it needs to be enabled in the VM configuration and second I think you
need to install extention (in the debian VM). I lost track where this was
to be downloaded. On windows I recall it was downloaded and shows up as
CD-disk and installs the VM Tools. I think you have to look for the VM
Tools if available.

John Berden

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Apr 14, 2020, 10:50:05 AM4/14/20
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I'm blind, without Orca it’s hard for me to read the output. I made a
screen, but there is no audio, or is it on top.

https://i.paste.pics/2502b2f2c2644bb7e19dbc9d7e2e7a8a.png

Constantine Ryzhikov

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Apr 14, 2020, 11:00:04 AM4/14/20
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John Berden

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Apr 14, 2020, 11:00:05 AM4/14/20
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Constantine Ryzhikov

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Apr 14, 2020, 11:10:05 AM4/14/20
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Installed it already. doesn't help.

Constantine Ryzhikov

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Apr 14, 2020, 11:20:04 AM4/14/20
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Installed it already. Does not help.

Dan Ritter

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Apr 14, 2020, 12:50:05 PM4/14/20
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Constantine Ryzhikov wrote:
> I'm blind, without Orca it???s hard for me to read the output. I made a
> screen, but there is no audio, or is it on top.
>
> https://i.paste.pics/2502b2f2c2644bb7e19dbc9d7e2e7a8a.png

I apologize for my assumption.

The lspci snipped you showed did have snd_ens1371 enabled,
so it is plausible that this is just a mixer problem.

alsa and pulse both have command-line tools to adjust mixing.

For alsa, try:

amixer scontrols

to get the available controls.

Some combination of the following might work:

amixer -c 0 set Master 100%
amixer -c 0 set PCM 100%
amixer -c 0 set Headphone 100%
amixer -c 0 set Beep 0%


As painful as alsa's tools are, pulseaudio's tools are worse.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples

pactl list cards
pactl set-sink-volume 0 100%

might work.

-dsr-

John Berden

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Apr 14, 2020, 1:40:05 PM4/14/20
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Listen! That helped! Unbelievable!
Thanks a lot!
And why is there no default volume? This is stupid!

Dan Ritter

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Apr 14, 2020, 3:00:05 PM4/14/20
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I'm glad it helped. Any idea which commands helped?

When a virtual machine initializes its "hardware", it doesn't
always do it the way that a real machine would. Having a default
volume of 0 might be silly, but pretty much any setting would
annoy someone. I expect you have done the "where is this beep
coming from?" dance yourself.

-dsr-

John Berden

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Apr 16, 2020, 10:00:04 AM4/16/20
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I'm glad it helped. Any idea which commands helped?


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