From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IEq20-0000Ux-00 for ; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:24:44 -0400 Received: (qmail 15443 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Jul 2007 10:24:13 -0700 Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:24:13 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: PCI serial? Message-ID: <20070728172413.GA15328@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070728064221.GA29760@marin.yelavich.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) 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: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:24:44 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:58:15PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hello, > Is it possible to configure the board to do this sort of thing? I'm no > hardware expert, at all, and it just seems as if I'm at a serious > disadvantage here. I can't install Linux without using Speakup, and I can't > use Speakup without a serial port, and I can't, well, you get the idea. Honestly, it's not as bad as you make it out to be. If you were playing around in a vm thus far, and if you're ok with how the vm does, my advice would be to just stick with the vm. Provided you have a fairly modern system, which you seem to, there's really not much difference between running in a vm, and on a physical box. Arguably, running in a vm has the advantage that you have a specific set of emulated hardware. Provided that hardware works ok for you with linux, if you don't run on a physical box, you don't have to worry about trying to get actual hardware to work, especially if you didn't build or design the system yourself with the intent of running gnu/linux on it. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGq3u97s9z/XlyUyARAsuNAJ9+N+oYlwV/fDyJgWbNgHieU+eiIwCfUPbY mNDaijWPHPUfEpkJ6Ot1w8U= =uZpi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----