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[Steve Holmes]

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I would be willing to update the keymap tutorial in a few days.
Actually, when I read it, it didn't seem to far off to me.  I'll have to
check file names and the like.  Greg, the steps you outlined are
basically what I did last week when I dealt with all this.  The only
hitch I seemed to have was the keymap proc variable didn't seem to take
effect right away.  I'm not quite sure what was happening but I would
replace the proc variable and the old map seemed to persist.  Once I
rebooted the box and had the new map in my holding areas for my backed
up proc variables, then all was fine.

I really wonder why genmap.c doesn't get compiled with the Speakup
Makefile.  I saw the target in there.  I'll have to look further and see
why.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:50:24AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> As Chuck has pointed out, the keymap tutorial is out of date, and
> keymap.map has in fact been replaced by speakupmap.map. Also, the
> speakup+r key is in fact listed at the very bottom.
> 
> The last time when I asked about this, and said I got no instructions,
> I did in fact try compiling genmap.c, but ran into problems doing so,
> which I don't remember anymore, but I'm sure I described them in that
> long ago post, which is probably still in the archives somewhere. Anyway,
> I've tried it again, and have gotten speakup+r working this time
> around. So, here's what I did; it's very simple really.
> 
> 1. cd to /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup
> 
> 2. If you have a recent version of speakup, speakupmap.map should
> already have speakup+r defined as the last line, so you shouldn't need
> to do anything.
> 
> 3. Compile genmap.c by running:
> 
> gcc -o genmap genmap.c
> 
> 4. Generate the keymap, placing the output in a file called keymap in
> the current directory by running:
> 
> ./genmap speakupmap.map >keymap
> 
> 5. Finally, copy your new keymap to /proc/speakup/keymap by typing:
> 
> cat keymap >/proc/speakup/keymap
> 
> That's it, you should have speakup+r working now.
> 
> There are a couple of questions that I have, that maybe someone can
> answer.
> 
> 1. How do you stop speakup+r from reading? I thought it was done with
> the escape key, but both that, and speakup+r itself don't stop it. I
> had to finally use ctrl+c once I got to the end of the document in
> emacs, and I'm pretty sure that this isn't how it should be done,
> since that would have the probably unwanted side-effect of terminating
> the currently foreground application.
> 
> 2. How do I preserve my keymap changes across reboots? Do I need a
> line in my boot scripts to copy it to /proc/speakup/keymap every time,
> or is there a more permanent way of doing this, such as including it
> in the kernel?
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:27:30AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > The most recent versions of keymap.map in the speakup directory has
> > speakup-R listed at the bottom of the list.
> > 
> > I don't think this gets generated automatically though I saw some stuff
> > in the Makefile for it.  In fact, I recently had to manually compile the
> > genmap.c program in order to regen my keymap.  I have a keymap that I
> > modified the laptop keys to be more clearly mapped and I included the
> > read-all key in there as well.  The keymap tutorial explains all how to
> > build the keymap and I then explicitly copied the generated map into my
> > /proc/keymap and backup directories so I don't lose them.
> > 
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