Hello All, I am running Windows XP via VMPlayer on top of a Debian distro with Speakup compiled into a 2.6.18 kernel. (straight in, not as modules) I am using Speakup with a Dectalk Express attached to /dev/ttyS0. What I would like to do is get the Window-Eyes running on the Windows XP working with the dectalk express. Since Speakup completely takes over and locks /dev/ttyS0, I successfully managed to set up a virtual serial port on the virtual machine that pointed to /proc/speakup/synth_direct on the host machine (Debian running Speakup) I thought for a moment that by doing this I could then get Window-Eyes to use the Dectalk Express. Unfortunately this didn't really work. Setting Window-Eyes to use any serial hardware synth other than the Dectalk Express does result in speech mixed with synth codes being spoken by the Dectalk. When I set Windo-Eyes to use the Dectalk Express, no speech at all happens. I'm guessing this may have to do with flow-control or some setting that I would need to play with to get working. The other reason this method won't work now that I think about it is because the synth_direct device is defaulted to only be writable which implies to me that it isn't readable and there for things like indexing won't work. Does anyone know of a better way to achieve my objective of being able to fully access the serial port attached to the Dectalk express? Is there a speakup device or work around that will allow this to happen? Thanks in advance, Monty
