-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried /dev/synth instead? Also, could you please consider writing up a howto of some sort describing what you did to get to where you are at now running winxp under VMPlayer? I for one would be interested in seeing what the procedure is like, and I probably am not the only one. Greg On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 05:58:31PM +0000, Monty Lilburn wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF11XF7s9z/XlyUyARAv1DAJ9sOd5T3wpD8yTTttf5KkqazyyCLQCgrK+O IllAerflCfh/6wk5RT65tOU= =FgNy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
