Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare

[Nick Stockton]

How are you able to emulate a serial port and pass the synth commands 
through to the dectalk USB?
It sounds really cool I didn't know vmware could do that.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:02 AM
Subject: Enjoying Slackware 12 in VmWare


> Hiya,
>    This is just a quick note to say I've been enjoying the way Slackware
> 12, Speakup, and VmWare coexist together on this predominantly Windows
> system.  I very much prefer my DecTalk USB to anything software speech can
> currently provide, and thanks to VmWare's serial port emulation I'm able 
> to
> enjoy it.  Qemu worked almost as well, the only downside being the fact 
> the
> alternate keymap for laptops didn't function.  I finally got irritated
> enough at it that I switched to VmWare server, which so far has met my 
> needs
> very nicely.
>    Slackware certainly isn't a distro for everyone, but I enjoy it.  Feels
> very hands-on and traditional, which suits me just fine.  I hope they
> continue to provide Speakup in later versions.
>    My only regret is that I can't do this natively.  I haven't got 
> anything
> resembling a serial port on this machine, and anyhow Linuxen have been
> problematic on here before.  It's ironic that Slackware--through
> Zipspeak--was my first ever Linux distribution back in the day.  It's good
> to be back.
> Just felt I'd post my two cents.
> All the best,
> Zack.
>
>
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