Installing speakup on Ubuntu 7.10

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Wed Mar 12 09:58:50 EDT 2008


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I used git for the first time yesterday so was able to download the
latest speakup for that moment.  I do have some questions now.  Is
this locked to 2.6.24 kernels? I saw reference to 2.6.24 in the build
script and if I recall, there was a 2.6.24 file in the mix.

What is the difference between the tarball the makedist builds and
just tarring up the speakup folder from git?

Also, you mentioned that you can only select a single synth.  Does
this mean you can only build one module per compilation or can you
build all the modules you want? Does the restriction apply to static
compilations?

I guess the serial port stuff is working again, right?


Thanks for clarifying.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:09:49AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> 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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