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

[Gregory Nowak]

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If memory serves, slackware 10.0 uses speakup from cvs, and not
speakup 1.5. Also, in my previous message on this topic, I
specifically mentioned that Ernst should use the checkout script when
patching.

Greg


On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:50:11AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 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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> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
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