Numeric keypad doesn't work in Speakup under Gentoo kernel 3.4.9

[Brandon McGinty-Carroll]

Repost. Didn't change my address for the list.
Those who are more familiar with this setup, please correct me. This is all off the top of my head.
I figured this gentleman could use a quick attempt at a fix.

The patches are at the below URL.
http://the-brannons.com/speakup-patches.tar.gz
allancox.patch and locking.patch are patches by different folks for the same issue.
Either of these patches _should deal with your issue.
The speakup repo is at:
http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
The speakup code is included in 3.4 kernels, but apparently the keypad bug patch hasn't been applied to some versions...
As I recall, from your kernel dir, git apply --check /directory_to_patches/locking.patch should apply the keypad fix to your kernel, which you will then need to rebuild.

Thanks for the patches, Chris.

Brandon McGinty-Carroll

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:17:38PM +0100, John Robinson wrote:
> Hi everyone.  I've been a Gentoo and Speakup user for quite some time
> and until recently, Speakup has worked perfectly.  Now that I have
> upgraded to Gentoo kernel 3.4.9, however, Speakup is no longer working
> as it should.
> 
> I am currently using Speakup version 3.1.6 with softsynth driver version
> 2.6.  The softsynth I am using is Espeak which connects to Espeak
> through Espeakup.
> 
> My problem is that my numeric keypad doesn't work when Speakup is
> active.  Whenever I press a key on my numeric keypad, my computer
> freezes.  When Speakup isn't active, for example when using Orca under
> Gnome, the numeric keypad works perfectly.
> 
> I would very much appreciate any advice anyone may have as to how to
> solve this issue.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
> 
> 
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