Hi,
I learned about this list after reading the article in AFB's AccessWorld about using VMWare Fusion with VoiceOver running with an eye towards having Windows and Mac running side-by-side. I looked at some of the other topics posted, but didn't see this one out there. So apologies if I just plain missed it. Here's my story: I've been a Windows person pretty much all the time during my working career and now that I'm retired, but when my PC started to show signs of old age, I decided to get a Mac so that I could expand my horizons to Mac OS but still have Windows on the same machine for the times I needed it. It's a late 2014 Mac Mini running High Sierra, and I've got Windows on a Bootcamp partition currently. The computer has a line-in jack that I really need to use because I've got lots of recordings on tape and cassette that I wish to digitize. Goldwave has been my program of choice, but there's no Mac version of that program. I also have a radio scanner that I sometimes need to re-configure, and there's no Mac software to do that. I've gotten tired of having to reboot every time I want to switch from Mac to Windows, so I downloaded the 30-day trial of VMWare Fusion and want to import Bootcamp into it. My problem is that when I start the imported machine, there's no sound, so Narrator and any other screen reader doesn't give me any speech output. Thankfully, I got a screen reader to run with my Braille display, so that allowed me to do some troubleshooting. I found out that my bootcamp partition has the Cirrus Logic CS4208 (AB 108) sound device, but that doesn't get imported. When I boot into stand-alone Bootcamp, Windows sees the line-in jack just fine. If I go to Fusion and startup the machine that works off the Bootcamp partition, I do get sound, but it's HdAudio, and I don't see the line-in jack. Then, if I go back and startup the Bootcamp (Imported) machine, there is no sound at all, and there isn't even an entry for sounds in the Device Manager. When I first downloaded the VMWare trial, I created my first machine directly from a Windows .iso image, and I got sound there, too, but again, it's HdAudio, and no line-in jack. I really hope I can come up with some way of creating a Windows Virtual machine that can access my line-in jack, but all the digging I've done has so far come up with nothing. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, and looking forward to following other interesting topics here, Pete De Vasto -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
