On 3 March 2010 06:47, Julius Schwartzenberg julius.schwartzenberg@gmail.com wrote:
Paul Vriens wrote:
I give up. Tried several combinations on XP (old and newer driver with or without waveset files), to no avail.
I found a solution. The earlier stuff I wrote here is completely unrelated. The Creative soft-synth included with the drivers using the wave sets works fine.
It's the external midi stuff that hangs. This is likely because VMware's MPU-401 emulation is non-existent. (Normally I understand this would go to the wide jack on your soundcard.)
To solve the problem you have to remove the MPU device. Open inf\wdma_ens.inf in the Windows directory and remove all lines and sections with UART in them. When using drivers from Creative, you need to extract them manually first and do the same thing with the included inf file (in addition to the one above for some reason!).
This will prevent the MPU-401 device from installing. You should have just the soft-syths which should not cause any programs to hang.
Regards, Julius
If I understand this correctly, Wine/the tests are correctly detecting an MPU-401 "hardware" synth device because the driver is loaded, but VMware doesn't emulate the hardware and ends up confusing Windows and hanging (presumably due to some I/O wait). I'd call this a bug in VMware.