Speakup and centOS

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

I can't remember the version boundaries (2.6.19 - 2.6.25?) but the
speakup version is 2 from the cvs repos.  I'm not sure where they were
located.

You will not get git version 3 working on those older kernel versions.


On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 12:15 -0500, Trevor Astrope wrote:
> 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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