patching a 2.6.13 kernel on a 64 bit system.

[Sean McMahon]

Oh yeah for above 2.6.11 you need cvs speakup.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: patching a 2.6.13 kernel on a 64 bit system.


> 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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