From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I7bpG-0004eL-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:49:42 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id k3so1221869ugf for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.224.3 with SMTP id w3mr4499371ugg.1183920580845; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Parham ( [82.99.202.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f31sm29873317fkf.2007.07.08.11.49.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002101c7c190$b2af1ae0$ccca6352@Parham> From: "Parham" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <01b401c7c082$1aeba200$ccca6352@Parham><20070707180010.GA27672@localhost.localdomain><014601c7c0d3$6bfb6b20$ccca6352@Parham><1183849345.23024.29.camel@taylor.homelinux.net><006901c7c118$1521a1d0$ccca6352@Parham><1183911768.3596.23.camel@layla.Mshome><1183913982.3596.36.camel@layla.Mshome><035401c7c181$f90d9f70$ccca6352@Parham> <1183919406.3596.63.camel@layla.Mshome> Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:19:17 +0330 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:49:42 -0000 Ok the problem with speech is now fixed. The only problem is that I have no idea what programs I can run. How can I get things I can run? FOr example I typed "firefox" and it said, "cannot open display" or such thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Some Questions About Linux And SpeakUp >I have used the free vmware server at www.vmware.com, I just mentioned > that there may be others as some people prefer to use open source > software (as you have greater rights with open source software). > > If you use vmware, I think most of it is quite self explanatrary, > download the windows version (I assume you will want to run this under > windows) install, load vmware, create a new hardware configuration (not > quite sure from memory what vmware calls this), choose the configuration > options you want from the screens that come up, modify and add extra > hardware if you want it (things like USB ports, serial ports, audio, > etc), make sure that configuration boots from CD , insert CD and then > get vmware to start the virtual machine and continue as if you were > running Linux directly on the computer (you may need to tell vmware to > grab keyboard input, I think it is ctrl+shift+g). Sorry those aren't > very specific, but I am doing this by memory, and I think the menu items > are enough (let us know if you have trouble and hopefully someone will > know the specific answer). > > From > Michael Whapples > On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:33 +0330, Parham wrote: >> The thing is that which one of these emulators should I get? And how can >> I >> install Linux on one? >> Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup