Precompiled Speakup kernel for Ubuntu 5.10

[Chris Norman]

Is there a precompiled kernel (or at least a patched one I can build) for 
FC4 please? That's what I'm using, and up until now, I had been just fine 
using it on remote, but after my windows Laptop crashed, I realized I need 
the more stable Linux box to be on hand, with speach.

Cheers,
Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Bowers" <onedingo at gmail.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:03 PM
Subject: Precompiled Speakup kernel for Ubuntu 5.10


> Hey.
>
> Does anyone know where to find a precompiled speakup kernel for Ubuntu 
> 5.10? Maybe something to add to the sources.list file?
>
> Last night I tried (once again) to do this manually (2.6.14.5 from 
> kernel.org + speakup cvs), but after 5+ hours of waiting had to shut it 
> down.
>
> Is this normal to compile for that length of time on a Pentium 233 MMX 
> (Socket 7) / 128 meg RAM?
>
> I had removed a lot of modules/support in make menuconfig that I know 
> would not be in that machine but it still seems a little excessive.
>
> BTW, I might as well mention what this machine's layout is.
>
> It has 2 users, one sighted and using Win98SE on hda1 (2.5gig C Drive) + 
> swap (win386.swp) on hdb1 (500 meg D Drive). The other is completely blind 
> and will be using some linux/speakup combination installed with / (root) 
> on hda2 (5.9 gig) and linux swap on hdb2 (500 meg). hdb3 (19 gig) is a big 
> ext3 partition used to dd_rescue a full backup image of hda to a file in 
> the rare event I mess something up. Speech synth is a DoubleTalk PC 
> Internal.
>
> On startup, the machine boots straight to DOS. The sighted user types win 
> at this point because Gnome desktop is just too slow to be usable on this 
> machine. When the blind user wants to use the machine, he determines it's 
> current state (DOS, Windows, Linux) by pressing the Print Screen key. No 
> beep means it's been left in windows and CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-Z will reboot it, 
> a beep means DOS and typing linux.bat will load linux through loadlin, 
> "You killed speakup" or "I'm alive" and it's in Linux and ready for use.
>
> Hopefully the above info will be helpful to someone looking to do the 
> same.
>
> Rob
>
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