Speakup and centOS

[Trevor Astrope]

I've patched the rhel 3 and rhel 5 kernels before and it definitely isn't 
an easy job, because the rhel kernel is a hybrid kernel with backported 
features and bug fixes. It basically requires patching parts of the patch 
by hand.

On rhel 5 the problem is compounded by the fact that speakup no longer 
supports kernels prior to 2.6.24, as the kobject implementation changed in 
2.6.24. I did manage to get speakup to compile by trying to backport the 
new kobject implementation, similar to how it was done for the infiniband 
driver, but the speakup_dectlk driver is not able to detect the synth. I 
suspect the result would be the same with other drivers. I haven't tried 
software speech as I'm having trouble getting sound to work and I haven't 
had any time lately to work on it. Since my time is limited, I think I 
will install fc12 and then try my luck when rhel 6 is out, hopefully this 
spring.

I would recommend that the speakup developers remove the patches for the 
kernels before 2.6.24, as speakup will not compile against these kernels 
with the older kobject implementation. Or perhaps there is an older 
version of speakup in git that uses the older kobject implementation?

Hth,

Trevor

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Tim Culhane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does Speakup work with the centOS linux distribution.  I believe that centOS
> is very similar to RedHat Enterprise Linux, so I'm interested in exploring
> the possibility of using this distribution.
>
> I read in the archive to this list that  somebody patched  the centOS kernel
> with  Speakup a while back, but it wasn't an easy job.
>
> Has anything changed since then?
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Tim
>
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