patching a 2.6.13 kernel on a 64 bit system.

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Darragh:

This email is coming to you via a Speakup Modified 2.6.13 kernel on a
dual Opteron (64-bit) box. I've been in 64-bit land with Speakup
Modified kernels since June 2004. While we were initially unable to
patch FC4, I don't recall ever having a serious problem with FC3.

There have been sufficient changes in the kernel that Kirk has had to
re-engineer parts of Speakup, though. So, you might want to check with
him, and also with Bill Acker who does the Speakup Modified Fedora
kernels.

Darragh writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having problems getting speakup running on this machine. I've recently upgraded to a 64 bit laptop running SuSE 9.3.  I was able to get speakup running on a Laptop with a pentium M processor and a Desktop with a Pentium 4 3 GHZ with HT processor but this one really doesn't like me.  
> 
> I've downloaded the 2.6.13 kernel from www.kernel.org and when I try to patch speakup into it I get errors about a missing file. However, Entries to speakup are still found where their suppose to be.  During make I get more error messages.  A friend tells me that this is most likely because speakup hasn't been developed for a 64 bit system but I find that hard to believe.
> 
> Can someone help?  I need to get this machine up and running as soon as possible as I use it as for testing and without it I am absolutely lost.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Darragh
> 
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