I was using vmware. Sorry about not replying sooner but some how the message ended up in my spam box which I don't check very often. Nick Stockton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:16 PM Subject: [SPAM] Re: mini-beep.iso question Nick Stockton, le Sun 17 Aug 2008 03:22:20 -0400, a ?crit : > Well I installed Debian yesterday in a vm using the mini-beep.iso image. > Sadly it did not come up talking after hitting the tab key and typing > speakup.synth=bns using my Braille lite as the speech synth. Mmm, in a vm? What virtualization manager are you using? (it seems to work for me, at least I'm seeing things go to the serial port) Samuel _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3362 (20080817) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com