If running from a live cd you don't have a lot of options but if the vm has the OS installed installing the vmware tools into the virtual OS can help a lot especially the network driver. The AMD driver in Linux does work but the vmware specific one works a lot better. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Pirika" <arfy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:41 AM Subject: trouble installing linux > hi, I have a strange problem, and wondering if anyone here has any ideas. > I want to play with linux, but would like to try it in a vm under windows, > to try things out. I have two distros here, arch, and grml. I'm using > windows xp pro sp3, and vmWare player 3.01. > > Arch loads perfectly fine, speakup comes up, but lately, arch is seeming > to have trouble retrieving packages. Protocol and/or timeout errors are > the norm here. Even selecting different mirrors doesn't help. > Grml just refuses to speak, but it does seem to load. as far as i know, > I'm giving the boot loader grml swspeakup as it's options. Maybe i need to > try a different vm? > btw, this is grml 2009.10. > > tia, > Arthur. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
