How are you able to emulate a serial port and pass the synth commands through to the dectalk USB? It sounds really cool I didn't know vmware could do that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:02 AM Subject: Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare > Hiya, > This is just a quick note to say I've been enjoying the way Slackware > 12, Speakup, and VmWare coexist together on this predominantly Windows > system. I very much prefer my DecTalk USB to anything software speech can > currently provide, and thanks to VmWare's serial port emulation I'm able > to > enjoy it. Qemu worked almost as well, the only downside being the fact > the > alternate keymap for laptops didn't function. I finally got irritated > enough at it that I switched to VmWare server, which so far has met my > needs > very nicely. > Slackware certainly isn't a distro for everyone, but I enjoy it. Feels > very hands-on and traditional, which suits me just fine. I hope they > continue to provide Speakup in later versions. > My only regret is that I can't do this natively. I haven't got > anything > resembling a serial port on this machine, and anyhow Linuxen have been > problematic on here before. It's ironic that Slackware--through > Zipspeak--was my first ever Linux distribution back in the day. It's good > to be back. > Just felt I'd post my two cents. > All the best, > Zack. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
