Build Speakup Modules

[Trevor Astrope]

Correct. I spent a lot of time and effort in the past trying to get a pcie 
serial card working with nothing to show for it. I even tried hard coding 
the irq/ioport addresses and loading the speakup_acnt driver after the 
card was initialized, but I still couldn't get it working.

I'm sure someone who knows there way around the kernel could get it 
working, but no one was interested in working on this when I asked for 
help. Sort of like how no one is interested in getting hardware synths 
working properly now.  I believe most of the speakup developers use 
software speech, so they likely have no motivation to work on hardware 
speech.


On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Keith Wessel wrote:

> Trevor,
>
> I presume your modification to serialio.c will get hardware synths working,
> but only for on-board serial ports and not add-on PCI serial ports. Is that
> a correct assumption? From what I've both heard and found for myself in the
> Speakup source, add-on serial port support takes more than what you've done,
> but I could be wrong.
>
> Keith
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of Trevor
> Astrope
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 6:52 PM
> To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
> Subject: Build Speakup Modules
>
> Here is how I built speakup as modules for my distribution kernel (Debian
> Jessie 3.10-2-amd64) without having to configure and compile the kernel.
>
> The below requires that you have the kernel headers for your distribution's
> kernel installed. You should have some files and directories under
> /lib/modules/<kernel_ver>/build. On my system, `ls
> /lib/modules/3.10-2-amd64/build' shows the following:
>
> 	arch  include  Makefile  Module.symvers  scripts
>
>
> First, download the speakup source code if you don't already have it.
>
> $ git clone http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
>
> Change to the actual source directory:
>
> $ cd speakup/drivers/staging/speakup
>
> Rename Makefile to Kbuild:
>
> $ mv Makefile Kbuild
>
> Save the attached Makefile to speakup/drivers/staging/speakup/Makefile and
> follow the instructions in speakup/INSTALLATION for building speakup as
> modules.
>
> The modules will be installed in /lib/modules/<kernel_ver>/extra. If your
> distribution kernel includes speakup, you will need to move them to
> /lib/modules/<kernel_ver>/kernel/drivers/staging/speakup to avoid any
> confusion with the version installed by your distribution.
>
> # mv /lib/modules/<kernel_ver>/extra/*.ko \
>      /lib/modules/<kernel_ver>/kernel/drivers/staging/speakup
>
> Run depmod to update module dependencies:
>
> # depmod <kernel_ver>
>
> Lastly, update the init image with the new speakup modules and boot your
> kernel. In Debian you can run:
>
> # update-initramfs -u
>
> If you are using a hardware synth, you may need to modify the speakup source
> in order to get speech. If this is the case for you, edit
> speakup/drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.c and remove the below around line
> 37. Then repeat these instructions.
>
>         if (synth_request_region(ser->port, 8)) {
>                 /* try to take it back. */
>                 printk(KERN_INFO "Ports not available, trying to steal
> them\n");
>                 __release_region(&ioport_resource, ser->port, 8);
>                 err = synth_request_region(ser->port, 8);
>                 if (err) {
>                         pr_warn("Unable to allocate port at %x, errno %i",
>                                 ser->port, err);
>                         return NULL;
>                 }
>         }
>
>
>
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