Because you should patch in the patch; do a make mrproper, copy the .config file in and _then_ do make oldconfig. Failing to do this might leave old dependancy info around and will retain previously generated include files and the like; I know the aic7xxx driver generates sequencer code with perl. Regards, Kerry On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:52:16PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I have a habit of hollering for help first and then doing my > problem-solving, reading, and testing. A week ago I tried my damnedest to > move on up to 2.2.18 with the cvs version of speakup, but failed to make > my alsa drivers work with my sblive card no matter what I tried. Frankie > and others said to just erase my source trees and begin again from > scratch, which seemed to me (being sophisticated and all that) to be > nothing but superstitious magical thinking. But you know what? I did it, > and it worked. No tweaking necessary. Configure and compile and install > the kernel, reboot into 2.2.18 with speech but without sound, then > configure, compile and install the alsa package, reboot again and up came > 2.2.18 with speech and with sound working. > > My apoligies, Frankie and all! Why couldn't it do that the first time? > > Chuck > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451
