speakup under vmware

[Alex Snow]

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Hi all.
I recently aquired a copy of vmware workstation 4.0.5. I would like to 
use this for some distro experimentation because It's a lot easer then 
repartitioning hard disks and screwing around with bootloaders.
I created a vertual machine using the operating system choice called 
linux in the add machine wizzard. I then went into the configuration for 
that vm and added the serial port to the list of hardware and left 
everything at it's defaults of using physical com1 etc. I tried booting 
both the debian sarge install cd and a copy of slackware 9.0 but I get 
no speach output from speakup and my transport. I tried shutting down 
and having my physical computer boot both cd's and they come up talking 
but vmware doesn't seem to want to work. I'm using win2k pro on the host 
system. has anyone had any experience with this software before?

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