Oh wow that's brilliant. I should try 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 12:32 PM Subject: Re: Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare > Hi, > I need a USB to serial adapter on the Windows side of things, which I > plug into one of the laptop's USB ports. > To VmWare, that appears as something like COM5. I can create a virtual > serial port in the VM by editing its hardware configuration before > starting > it, and telling it, in this case, to use COM5 and connect the virtual > serial > port to the physical one. > For power, I set the Dectalk USB to RS232 mode, and hook up its USB > cable to another uSB port on this laptop. The thing normally has > batteries, > but 9-volt ones are rare and anyway, this is alright and works. Just > start > the virtual machine and tell Speakup as usual to find a dectalk express on > what it thinks of as COM1, or speakup_ser=0 > Hope this helps. This is how I get around the lack of serial ports on > this thing. > Best, > Zack. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton at gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:12 AM > Subject: Re: Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare > > >> 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. >> -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
