Need help installing Speakup in a 2.6.6 Kernel

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Sat May 15 22:56:15 EDT 2004


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If you want to run speakup with linux 2.6.6, you'll need to get the cvs
version of speakup, 1.5 will not work. If you want to use speakup 1.5,
you'll need to use linux 2.4.26. Hth.

Greg


On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:39:00PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> Well I finally got a Linux box up and running.  And now a few weeks later,
> brave old me wants to take a stab at a kernel compile.  But not without a
> backup config. so I can run away screeming if needed!  And actually, I'm now
> running a 2.6.6 kernel, but with no Speakup.  Why?  Well...  When I run the
> install script in the speakup-1.5 directory here's what I get
> Patching version v26
> Creating .orig files [cat:
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/patchlist-v26: No such file or directory
> ] done.
> Patching files [ppatch: install: extra operand
> patch: Try `patch --help' for more information.
> ] done.
> Copying files [ccp: copying multiple files, but last argument
> `speakup-announcement-1.5' is not a directory
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> ] done.
> 
> I looked and saw a speakup directory in the kernel sources so went ahead and
> made the kernel.  But I wasn't asked anything about Speakup and sure enough,
> when it came reboot time, it didn't come up talking although it did at least
> come up!  Any thoughts?
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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