Installing speakup on Ubuntu 7.10

[Kristoffer Gustafsson]

Hello!
I've patched speakup with kernels before, compiled it and got it to work.

But it is long ago now. The last time I got my own kernel to work was in 
2004. when there was a working speakup tarball.
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Installing speakup on Ubuntu 7.10


> The web pages have not been updated to reflect the latest changes to
> speakup.  I thought we had someone that was going to take on updating
> the pages but haven't heard anything from him recently.
>
> As for instructions they are in the repository which can be accessed
> with git clone http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git.  I wouldn't say
> it is really ready for prime-time yet though.  There are still issues
> we are working out which can also be read about in the various files
> in the repository.
>
> /proc/config.gz is not a replacement for make oldconfig just a
> starting place.  If you don't understand this already then compiling
> your own kernel with external patches maybe beyond your capabilities
> currently.  There are lots of documents in the linux kernel tree so
> there's plenty of reading to keep folks busy wanting to do it
> themselves.
>
>   Kirk
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