Debian and speakup

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Thu Sep 5 16:14:18 EDT 2002


The CVS version works with 2.4.19 and later kernels; it will not work
with 2.4.18 and below.  Thus if you put up a 2.4.19 kernel, the tar.gz
version of Speakup will not work either.

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Debian User wrote:
> Hi there:
> Has anyone been successufl in compiling Speakup in the Debian Distribuion?
> I've got the kernel source for 2.4.18, did the ./install for speakup and
> then ran the CVS checkout script.  here was an error whith the script
> talking about one chunk too many when patching or something like that.
> I've tried compiling with the CVS patch and Without and no success has
> been achieved as of yet.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.  I was thinking of maybe going to a Redhat
> distribution, but I've decided that I like the dselect command too much to
> leave it behind.
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
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