speakup and hald conflict in Slackware 12.2

[Garrett Klein]

How are you using VirtualBox 2,6? QT4 doesn't read at all with JAWS.


Zachary Kline wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" 
> <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup and hald conflict in Slackware 12.2
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>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 07:36:54PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
>>> I, too, am
>>> using a Dectalk USB in serial mode, with VirtualBox, for what that's
>>> worth.
>>
>> Well, I've got gnome, and hal too, running under debian testing in
>> virtualbox, and am not seeing sluggish response, when using the bns as
>> the synth. So, I'd say that whether running under virtualbox, or on
>> actual iron probably doesn't make a difference here, since using the
>> bns on a real box is fine here, in both cases (except for vbox's
>> serial port issues), as I've said before.
>>
>> BTW, speaking of virtualbox, how are you managing to use the dectalk,
>> given vbox's serial port issues?
>>
>> http://vbox.innotek.de/ticket/812
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> Hi Greg,
>    I'm using Virtualbox 2.0.6 under a Windows XP host.  I haven't 
> noticed any serial port issues, certainly not as described in the above 
> ticket. (Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that by default 
> the Dectalk USB in serial mode seems to use Xon/Xoff handshaking?)
>    I use a USB-to-serial converter on both my desktop and laptop with 
> the Dectalk this way.  VirtualBox doesn't react oddly at all, and the 
> unit just works.  I must confess, though, that the intricacies of serial 
> communications are for the most part beyond me.  I'm just glad to be 
> able to say that it works for me, though I don't know why.
> Hope this helps, somehow.
> Best,
> Zack.
> 
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