Trying to get Apollo II to work was: How about Apollo II?

[Kirk Reiser]

Hello Ernst:  Okay, the problem you are having with patching is that
we don't support the older 1.5 version of speakup.  It will not as you
found out patch against newer kernels.  You see supporting kernels is a
moving target and it is very difficult to stay compatible with new and
old kernels alike.  You should go to linux-speakup.org and in the ftp
or download area get the README.cvs and the checkout script.  The
current cvs version of speakup is where all newer changes and features
show up and it is mostly just as stable as the older tarball.  Even
that though will not compile on older kernels so when upgrading it is
useful to always use the latest kernel or close to it.

As for the Slackware version of speakup maybe Joe will have something
to say about that.  I do not support any of the distributions myself
so really don't know what does or doesn't work.  For the most part the
folks that put them together are pretty good about helping with
problems so I'm a bit surprised Joe hasn't stepped forward and said
anything yet.

The checkout script will, provided you have cvs installed, get the
source and patch it automagically against a freshly unpacked kernel
tree.  You will need to or should be in the top level of the kernel
tree when running the script so it can find everything it needs to
patch.

  good luck
  Kirk

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