Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer

[John G Heim]

If you wrote a hardware speechsynthesizer emulator, it would  be useful 
in another way. If you are booting a server, most of which have serial 
ports, you could use a null modem cable to make a laptop act like a 
hardware speech synthesizer. In other words, anyone could build their 
own hardware speech synthesizer by installing your emulator on a laptop 
and connecting it to the other machine with a null modem cable. If you 
did it right, it would work with
jaws too.


On 03/02/2016 03:02 PM, Haden Pike wrote:
> Correct, I forgot about serial ports. I wonder if I could write software to emulate one of the supported hardware synthesizers.
>
> Haden Pike
> Computer Science
> University of Kentucky
> Class of 2016
>
>
>
>> On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
>>
>> Good point. Actually, I believe Haden said he's doing this in a
>> virtual machine. In that case, just give the guest a virtual serial
>> port, and connect to it from the host with minicom/screen/telnet.
>>
>> I haven't used slackware for the last 11 years or about, so can't give
>> you an exact boot sequence. However, when you get to a boot prompt of
>> the boot loader, pass:
>>
>> console=ttyS0,115200
>>
>> to the kernel, and you should hopefully be all set.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:44:16AM -0600, John G Heim wrote:
>>> One more thing that might be worth considering is a serial console
>>> install.  This would probably be way easier than manually
>>> reproducing the steps performed by the slackware installer. you'd
>>> need another computer and a null-modem cable. Oh,and both machines
>>> have to have serial ports.
>>> Tip: Null-modem cables are a glut on the market in used computer
>>> stores. New, they are about $5. But there is no reason to pay more
>>> than a dollar for one of those thingsat a used computer store.
>>
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