CVS Updates - was default speakup for Debian Sarge

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Thu Aug 4 13:41:09 EDT 2005


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Also, What versions of 2.4 kernels will this latest CVS Speakup work on?
I have an old laptop here that I am sticking to 2.4 for the forseable
future.  Thanks for any help.  I could use Speakup 2.0 tar ball if needs
be.  thanks.

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:23:31AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Speaking of updates to cVS, I'm no longer getting any update
> announcements when changes are posted to CVS.  Is that list broken
> again? This Speakup/kernel version compatibility stuff is going to have
> to be documented carefully and clearly.  the tar ball came out not more
> than 3 months or so ago and now it is no longer compatible with the
> latest kernel if I understand things correctly.  How easy would it be to
> recreate the tar ball with the latest version to try and keep
> reasonablly current with a current production kernel?  I have on some
> occasions, patched a "working version of Speakup inside a given kernel
> source and tar that back up for personal recovery purposes but I'm
> trying to think of someone new to Speakup who wants to get started and
> would hope he wouldn't have to do CVS and hopt to God it matches the
> kernel he is using.
> 
> I would really like to know the procedure of how to take a CVS snap shot
> of Speakup and convert it into a tarball that will still compile and
> work.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:00:36AM -0500, Gene Collins wrote:
> > 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
> 
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