Many thanks for the tip, will have a look! Have you tried running a Windows screen reader under it? Do you install Windows? Many thanks, Christian On 2006-07-09 at 18:49 Alex Snow wrote: >you might also want to look at qemu. It's a free alternative to >vmware that is pretty accessible, and might give you better results >then wine. Qemu uses commandline options to run instead of a gui >configuration like vmware does, so you could write a shell script to >start it and launch that from inside an x session. >On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 >at 12:02:02AM +0200, Christian wrote: >> Hello, >> Yes, it is set to emulate Win2000. I read in the user documentation that >the config file was disabled, instead they use the win registry from what >they call it. >> One thing I also did was copying the entire c:\wineyes folder from my >Windows partition into my Linux system. >> After that I tried running >> wine wineyes.exe but it didn't work either. >> Will try setting it to Win95/98 but with some help then. >> The other none free alternative is Vmware Workstation where you install >Windows onto a virtual machine, but programs might become slow so I am not >considering that. Also don't think it is accessible either. >> All the best, >> Christian >> >> >> On 2006-07-09 at 14:01 Gregory Nowak wrote: >> >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >Hash: SHA1 >> > >> >On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:33:31PM +0200, Christian wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> Now I have installed Wine but there are problems when it comes to >> >configuration. winecfg requires X. I tried running it with Gnopernicus >but >> >Gnopernicus goes completely silent. >> > >> >It sounds like winecfg, and maybe wine itself, isn't a gnome >> >compatible program then. Back when I tried wine, there was a shell >> >script that was text-based, and it let you do the configuration in the >> >text console, so that after it finished, you could simply just run wine. >> > >> >> I downloaded Window-Eyes 5.5 Demo and ran it. I have to run it from >an X >> >console. I simply type: >> >> wine we55demo.exe >> >> After that I get three click sounds and Window-Eyes comes up with a >> >prerecorded message that before the Window-Eyes can continue, your >system >> >needs to be restarted. Well, I have run this two times but still the >same >> >thing. >> > >> >Hmm, interesting. It doesn't generate any click sounds when natively >> >running under windows, at least it hasn't for me. As for the restart >> >message, it sounds like wine is configured to emulate a windows >> >2k/xp/2k3 system, in which case, wineyes is installing the wineyes >> >video driver, and since you're being prompted to restart over, and over >> >again, it's apparently not succeeding in getting itself chained >> >into the wine video setup, which is very well within the realm of >> >possibilities. You might just have to settle for running wine as an >> >emulated win95/98/me setup. >> > >> >Greg >> > >> > >> >- -- >> >web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >> >gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >> >skype: gregn1 >> >(authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> > >> >- -- >> >Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) >> > >> >iD8DBQFEsW6U7s9z/XlyUyARAgT3AJ9xE3X1sH80ui7oOmd8OIrrJ9IxAACfSABx >> >ZQIAV+PPRc1hpFHxkzwbvuY= >> >=Yjor >> >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Speakup mailing list >> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >-- >Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste > -- ksh at cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
