Compiling Speakup modules

[Willem van der Walt]

No, you can just build the modules.
If some one else do not give you the propper make and make install 
commands for this, I'll try to help, but will also have to read up a bit.


On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just been doing some poking around in the kernel sources and I see that 
> Speakup is in staging.  A mention of this on the web site would be helpful 
> since I thought, based on what the site says, that it's still in the old git 
> repository and was disappointed to see that none of the code had been 
> updated in years.  Anyway, someone is having a problem with the DECtalk 
> dropping pitch randomly.  While I can't reproduce it here, I see that 
> speakup_dectlk.c has a line to drop the pitch to 100, so presumably changing 
> it to 120 would fix the problem.
>
> My question is this:  Once I make the change, how do I recompile the Speakup 
> modules?  Do I have to compile a new kernel from scratch?  I really don't 
> want to build a new kernel just for a single line change.  If I can't just 
> build Speakup, can I only build the staging drivers?  I see a Makefile in 
> the Speakup source, but it looks like it won't work by itself.  I read the 
> README in staging, but it talked about compiling everything.  I am not a 
> programmer and I'm not sure where to look.  The kernel README said to look 
> at the Changes file, but that isn't in the staging tree.  I fear I have to 
> download a full kernel release and do a full compile.  Is this correct?
>
> Finally, how do you get hardware speech working on kernels after 2.6.32?  I 
> know of someone running 3.16 and he says it works, but I just installed 4.0 
> from Debian testing and it appeared to lock up the machine when I loaded the 
> speakup_dectlk module.  This is the linux-image-686 metapackage.  How can I 
> get around this and use official Debian kernels?
>
> Thanks very much for your help.
>
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