speakup on a mac

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Sun Jul 1 12:03:48 EDT 2001


Yea, I wonder about the mac and the new OS, OS10; it uses FreeBSD under
the hood.  Would sound promising but don't know if Speakup could function
under FREE BSD.  Any ideas?

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I think there would be issues with the serial port driver used in speakup
> if you tried running it on a mac.  But I'm only speculating here.  I just
> asked Kirk on the reflector and he said that if it was using a 16550 UART
> and the addressing was the same, then it should work fine.  Wanna try it
> for us and report back?
>
> Geoff.
>
>
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