patching a 2.6.13 kernel on a 64 bit system.

[Darragh]

Great. thanks, now that I know its possible I'll stick with it.

I got brlty working today which is a start but I miss speakup!

At the moment I don't have access to cvs. do you think getting the latest version of speakup would resolve this?

If so could someone send it to me?

The version I have now is 2.0 from the linux-speakup.org site.

Thanks again


Darragh
-----Original message-----
From: Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Date: Tue,  4 Oct 2005 16:09:07 +0100
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: patching a 2.6.13 kernel on a 64 bit system.

> 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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