default speakup for Debian Sarge

Gene Collins collins at gene3.ait.iastate.edu
Thu Aug 4 12:00:36 EDT 2005


Hi Shane.  The latest cvs has been modified to work with 2.6.12, and
will no longer work with 2.6.11 and earlier.  I suggest you grab the
Speakup 2.0 tar ball and shoehorn that into the 2.6.8 kernel.

Gene

>On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:15:50PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>> The issue of the speakup modified 2.6.8  kernel is a sticky one, since 
>> that kernel requires a speakup patch version that may only be available 
>> by rolling back the retrieval date in the CVS sources. The speakup 2.0 
>> tarball requires 2.6.10 or 2.6.11, so it cannot be used to patch 2.6.8  
>> for the Sarge release. I seem to recall that the mark/cut/paste problem 
>> was propagated in the CVS system for a short time before it was fixed, 
>> and it looks the luck of the draw that you used it while it was broken 
>> to patch the 2.6.8 kernel. 
>
>I just grabbed the latest CVS at the time and merged it
>into the Debian kernel.  I think it was 2.0.  It didn't go
>in cleanly and needed some manual work but nothing too
>extensive.
>
>I'll use latest CVS in the next CD though so hopefully that
>fixes things.
>
>-- 
>Shane Wegner
>http://www.cm.nu/~shane/
>
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