Now that I'm reading back through the archives, I do see where he said
that sound was working, however, it still isn't clear on exactly what
sound that may be. I'm fairly certain that he'd specify if it were a pc
speaker type sound, something that would play, even without the vm ever
booting, just as it did on mine, but if it's any other type of sound,
then that's more than what I had on mine and I'm incorrect.
I'd of guessed that if he were able to somehow access the machine
through other means, SSH or whatever and get it to play a sound, he'd of
also posted any errors he came across with speakup and it's parts.
Without knowing for sure that he's actually able to fully boot it and
reach a console, it's hard to say.
Depending on how the vm is configured, I'd probably think it worth while
to see if the installation can get an address through DHCP on the
router, but unless he has some way to verify how far he's making it
after he powers on the vm, I don't know. That's about the time I'd be
asking someone to read the screen to me to get an error so I could post
it here on this wonderful list. :)
Take care.
Post by Gregory NowakThe OP was asked earlier in the thread if sounds besides espeak could
be played/heard, and the answer was yes. So, I for one assumed until
this point that whatever the issue is, it isn't an install that
doesn't boot.
Greg
Post by jeremyNah, I'd just used the shortcut key to power on the vm and then the
shortcut to send input over to it. As far as any output, it was all
being sent to the vm's display. Either way, from the very little I
could see on the vm's window, it was pretty obvious that Linux was
never actually booting. After I'd power it on, it would take me to
something that looked like a grub menu and then right afterwards,
have a tiny bit of text in the top left corner that would never
change. Typically, on any other Linux installation inside VMWare,
once the grub menu displays and you make a selection, you'd see a
great deal of text scroll on the display. This scrolling would
normally take at least a few seconds and then either stop or clear
out when it reaches the end, leaving you with the login area where
you enter your username and password.
I'd also tried to do the same installation outside of VMWare player
and everything worked as I'd expect it to, so I figured it was
something caused by VMWare itself.
I figured it was worth mentioning here in this thread, as if it is
the same problem, Debian failing to boot, it would certainly explain
why there's no speech. :)
Take care.