compiling a module for linux-2.4.27-2-speakup

Charles Hallenbeck chuckh at hhs48.com
Fri Jan 27 19:25:22 EST 2006


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Hi Luke,

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 09:46:48AM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> 
> You could try installing the linux-source package, which places a 
> tarball in /usr/src that you unpack yourself. You could then take the 
> config for your current kernel, and run a kernel build in that source 
> tree. I don't think it not having speakup will matter, as speakup 
> doesn't touch the area of code you need to build the module.
> 
> I would then attempt to compile the module against that source tree.
> 
> Hope this helps.

I am doing that right now and will let you know. I may have to actually patch the source tree with speakup and install 
it though, since the compilation wants the source tree to match the running kernel. But I will take it one step at a 
time.

Thanks.



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