Re: VMWare/JFW issues

[brent harding <bharding greenbaynet com>]

What version does debian's apt program download? What else does it need to
run, and how do you use it with speech?
At 09:35 AM 6/21/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Nolan Darilek writes:
>This seems to be a problem with the latest vmware.
>
>it will go away if you use vmware v1 rather than v2.
>
>of course you are using an older version so you loose the updates in v2.
>
>have no idea why this is broken in v2 and fine in v1.
>
>Bart
> 
> > Hi. I've recently been attempting to get a working VMWare/win98
> > installation using JFW, but I'm encountering quite a few strange
> > problems, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something
> > like this before?
> > 
> > I was using an ancient version of JFW 3.0, but this simply refused to
> > work on windows; I received the infamous BSOD whenever JFW was
> > launched. So I decided to grab the latest 3.5 demo, hoping that the
> > problems would be solved.
> > 
> > The demo starts nicely, and the intro speaks. The demo introduction
> > sounds as if it's pre-recorded, while the remainder of the
> > installation is synthesized speech through the soundcard. For some
> > reason, the synthesized speech is pure static, though the occasional
> > sound effects play nicely. Additionally, every other sound which
> > windows makes works, so I'm sure the card is configured correctly. I
> > know that the static is synthesized speech because I can occasionally
> > make out fragments of words behind the static; I can't link this
> > phenomena to anything, however.
> > 
> > I've emailed HJ tech support, but I haven't received a response
> > yet. I'm not sure if this is due to the fact that I'm only running a
> > demo and there are paying customers who need help first, whether there
> > is normally a few-day delay for support, or whether VMWare either
> > isn't supported or isn't well-understood. :) I'm considering going to
> > the VMWare folks next, but I don't know quite what to say. "Hey, guys?
> > Your SB16 emulation works in 99% of the cases which I've found, but in
> > this instance . . . " Plus I'm not even sure which piece of software
> > is originating this problem, and I can't reboot to windows to test
> > it. Has anyone else experienced this?
> > 
> > This isn't my only problem, however. I'd like to use my soundcard,
> > instead of my dectalk, for speech synthesis under VMWare. For some
> > reason, when VMWare opens up the serial ports upon startup, it seems
> > to bombard the port with a large amount of binary data -- such a large
> > amount in fact that I can't seem to cleanly access the serial ports
> > after powering down. I've tried killing every Emacspeak session on my
> > system and using VMWare, but as soon as I start Emacspeak after
> > powering down VMWare the gibberish starts. Restarting Emacspeak or the
> > speech server doesn't solve the problem either; I'm forced to reboot
> > my system. Ideally I'd like to run Emacspeak and VMWare simultaneously
> > (while deactivating the Emacspeak speech server, of course), since I
> > usually have dozens of Emacs buffers open, and it's a pain to reload
> > all of the files and webpages which I usually have open. Has anyone
> > experienced anything like this and, if so, is there a solution?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
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