Speakup & 2.6.12 kernels

[John covici]

For the 2.6.12 kernel you need CVS, the 2.0 tarball will not work with
2.6.12.

on Wednesday 08/17/2005 Garry Turkington(garry.turkington at acm.org) wrote
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I've built Speakup from CVS into every sub-release of the vanilla 
 > 2.6.12 kernel as well as the Fedora mangled version.
 > 
 > So I'd suggest the errors are due to Debian-specific kernel changes. 
 > Simply ignoring the rejected patches is not likely a wise course of 
 > action, try applying the rejected patches by hand - they'll be in the .rej 
 > files in the apposite directories.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Garry
 > 
 > -- 
 > Garry Turkington
 > garry.turkington at gmail.com
 > 
 > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
 > 
 > > I am trying to patch a 2.6.12 kernel from Debian with Speakup 2.0, which says
 > > that it will work with any 2.6.10 or later kernel..  However, I am getting the
 > > following when I run ./install from the speakup directory:
 > >
 > > Patching version v26
 > > Creating .orig files [...............] done.
 > > Patching files [ppppppp1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/Makefile.rej
 > > pppp9 out of 13 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/vt.c.rej
 > > pppp] done.
 > > Copying files [ccccc] done.
 > >
 > > I tried using Speakup from CVS with slightly different but very similar results.
 > >
 > > Is it safe to go ahead and try compiling the kernel?  Does Speakup just not work
 > > with 2.6.12 kernels?  Or is it a Debian thing since I am using the Debian kernel
 > > sources?
 > >
 > > All help appreciated,
 > > Lorenzo
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