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January 13, 2017 David Leave a comment

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We have an important announcement today regarding this blog.

Since 2007 the KB Digest has been published weekly, containing all the new KBs published by product the previous week.

What is being changed, and why?

The KB Digest is being merged with its sister blog- The Support Insider. We will continue to publish the same content weekly, just in a new location. With one central location for all GSS communications with the outside we expect to be able to build our brand and broaden our audience.

Specifics:

Starting Jan 16 2017 no new content will be published to The KB Digest blog. Current content will remain active for one month after which the blog will be removed.
New posts will be found at The Support Insider, under the category KB Digest.
RSS subscribers will continue to receive updates uninterrupted (ie: no changes to your subscription are needed).

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Option for "echo cancellation" missing in Linux Player 12.5.1

January 10, 2017 David Leave a comment

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I’m running Player 12.5.1 on a Linux (Fedora 25) host and the option for echo cancellation does not show up in the Hardware/Sound panel when running a Windows 7 guest. According to the documentation, echo cancellation support was added to Workstation 12 & Player 12 and I should see a checkbox for it. I thought maybe it didn’t work for this VM created with an older version of Player, or only worked on a newer version of Windows, but I started creation of a VM for Windows 10 (far enough to get to the ‘customize hardware’ option before it is actually created) and it still didn’t show up.

Perhaps my host is incorrectly configured and that’s why it doesn’t show up? I did a pretty vanilla install of Fedora 25, and have a fairly generic Kaby Lake based laptop without any funky hardware. Any ideas?

Here is the output of lspci -vv for the sound card. Since it shows up as a ‘device 9d71’ maybe it isn’t fully supported in Linux yet?

00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d71 (rev 21)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 81ff
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 130
    Region 0: Memory at b1328000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Region 4: Memory at b1310000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
        Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
    Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Address: 00000000fee00338 Data: 0000
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl

uname -a:

Linux XXX 4.8.15-300.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 15 23:10:23 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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