Part 4: Debian Lenny 64bit on a Dell Precision M4300 - Sound from VMware Workstation 6.5.x Guests

No show-stopping issues with VMWare Workstation 6.5 under 64bit Debian Lenny, just no sound from guests. This is because of a VMware problem in that it relies on OSS driver support and /dev/dsp. There are tons and tons of posts all over Google asking about how to fix it but no real answers. Luckily, I stumbled on one pretty low on the search results that did the magic trick. 3 modprobes later and viola, sound in guests! Mucho credit to Crumja's blog over at Wordpress for his discovery of another post on the Debian forums from HokieTux. At the time of this writing, the Debian forums are down due to an admin account getting hacked but should be up again shortly. I'm blogging from my Vista drive today so when I switch back to the Lenny drive or the Debian forums come back, I'll post the 3 modprobes and how to automate them loading at bootup. Until then, use the links above (last paragraph on Crumja's blog describes the problem and there he links to the Debian forum post from HokieTux).