Compiling Speakup modules

[Tony Baechler]

The problem is that I'm not a programmer and I really don't have the 
infrastructure or resources to compile a custom kernel.  I have to be able 
to test the patch before submitting it, but I really have no idea what I'm 
doing.  Now he says the pitch, volume and rate drop.  I thought it was just 
the pitch, so it looks like my simple fix won't work after all.  On my main 
machine, it takes at least two hours to compile and that's a bit long to 
wait for a simple test.  I have a server, but I access it remotely and I 
would have to build, download and install kernel packages every time which 
also isn't practical.  That being said, the server runs Ubuntu 14.04, so I 
would like to try your script.  I know Debian has make-kpkg, but that in 
itself wouldn't help since I have no idea how to write a patch which would 
actually fix the problem.  If I do get the problem fixed, I'll of course 
post here.

On 8/3/2015 7:41 AM, John G Heim wrote:
> I was interested in this question because there is the other bug where
> speakup cannot talk to most serial hardware speech synthesizers. It would be
> nice to be able to patch, compile, and install just the one module that
> causes that. But googling for info on compiling and installing a single
> module seems to indicate that it's no easier (probably harder) than
> compiling the whole kernel.
>
> Depending on your distro, recompiling the kernel isn't too hard. I have a
> script for ubuntu that does the whole thing from downloading the source to
> installing my patch to compiling the kernel. It's routine. It does take a
> long time but you don't have to sit there and watch it the whole time.
>
> You should submit a bug report though so eventually, everyone can benefit
> from your patch.
>