As I recall, the boot option should be swspeak, not swspeakup. On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:41:39PM +1200, Arthur Pirika wrote: > 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 -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (23% of Full) My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net Audio editor weblog: edway.wordpress.com -------- Yesterday is a memory, Tomorrow is a vision, Today is a bitch!
