speakup and hald conflict in Slackware 12.2

[Alex Snow]

Hi,
Thanks for the info.  I was using VBoxManage to configure my serial 
devices, which probably explains the problem I was having.
On Tue, Dec 
16, 2008 at 09:27:45AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>    Yes, this is with Virtualbox 2.0.6.  If I may ask, how are you trying to 
> get it to use a serial port?  vboxmanage is currently broken in that 
> regard. I used the GUI settings pages to configure mine.  It's a little 
> difficult: the QT accessibility library is somewhat lacking.  Nevertheless, 
> I got it working.
>    Essentially, you have to go into the VM settings dialogue and use the 
> tab control to get over to the serial ports section.  It starts off with a 
> checkbox to decide whether to activate the ports.
>    Actually, this part is quite doable with vboxmanage.  If you prefer 
> that, you want a command something like:
> vboxmanage modifyvm "Vmname" -uart1 0x3f8 4.
>    The only part that requires the GUI is assigning the port to a physical 
> device.  Go into that settings panel as above mentioned and you'll 
> eventually find that serial tab.  The checkbox and port number are already 
> set, so tab over until you find a series of what are essentially radio 
> buttons.  There's one about connecting to a pipe, which you'll recognize 
> because once you select that there's another checkbox which becomes active 
> asking if you want Virtualbox to create the pipe itself.  At any rate, you 
> want the other radio button: there's only a box asking for "Port Path" with 
> that one.  Just put in the device name, e.g. COM3 in my case, and you 
> should be set.
> Hope this helps.
> Best,
> Zack. 
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