Installing speakup on Ubuntu 7.10

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!
I'm planning to do the same thing. how do you patch the kernel from the 
repository?
Also, is using that config.gz file the same as make oldconfig?

/Kristoffer
I've not seen any information on the speakup site. only the cvs information.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: <d at digitaldarragh.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Installing speakup on Ubuntu 7.10


>I would recommend getting the latest tar ball from kernel.org and
> patch that with the speakup git repository.  Then use the
> /proc/config.gz from your currently running ubuntu to get the basic
> ubuntu kernel configuration and only answer the newer options when
> doing a make oldconfig.  This will get you as close as possible to a
> standard ubuntu kernel set-up.  You can then change your grub
> configuration to pass the speakup.synth parametre in your grub.conf
> for your preferred synth.  You could also just load the speakup_xxxx
> module from /etc/modules if having it built-in isn't really inportant
> to you.
>
>
>
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