Hi Jacob: I will post the script here and you can cut it out and make it executable.. You will need to start with a clean unpacked linux source tree rooted at /usr/src/linux. The cvs script will download the cvs archive and patch the kernel automagically. The anonymous password is 'please' without the ticks. You can then run make mrproper and drop your .config file in to do a make oldconfig if you like. Kirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash VERSION=v`head -2 /usr/src/linux/Makefile | \ awk '{ printf "%s",$3 }'` DIR=/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup echo "Patching version $VERSION" if [ "$1" != "--debug" ]; then SILENT=--silent fi if [ ! -d ${DIR}/CVS ] && [ "$CVSROOT" == "" ]; then echo 'CVSROOT not set. Enter it below. Hit enter for anonymous.' read -p 'CVSROOT> ' CVSROOT [ "$CVSROOT" == "" ] && CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous at bumpy.braille.uwo.ca:/usr/src/CVS' export CVSROOT cvs login || exit fi if [ "$1" != "-p" ]; then # get new version mkdir -p ${DIR%/speakup} cd ${DIR%/speakup} if [ -d speakup ]; then cd speakup cvs update -P || exit else cvs co -P speakup || exit cd speakup fi fi # make .orig files echo -n 'Creating .orig files [' for i in `cat ${DIR}/patchlist`; do patch=`echo $i | cut -f 1 -d ,` filebase=`echo $i | cut -f 2 -d ,` mkdir -p `dirname $filebase` if [ "$patch" == "1" ]; then if [ ! -e $filebase.orig ]; then echo -n . cp $filebase $filebase.orig fi fi done echo '] done.' # apply patches echo -n 'Patching files [' for i in ${DIR}/diff-${VERSION}/*.patch; do # skip dirs [ -d $i ] && continue echo -n p writeloc=${i##$DIR\/diff-${VERSION}\/} writeloc=${writeloc%.patch} writeloc=${writeloc//^/\/} patch $SILENT -f -p0 -o $writeloc $writeloc.orig $i done echo '] done.' # copy files echo -n 'Copying files [' for i in ${DIR}/diff-${VERSION}/*.copy; do # skip dirs [ -d $i ] && continue echo -n c writeloc=${i##$DIR\/diff-${VERSION}\/} writeloc=${writeloc%.copy} writeloc=${writeloc//^/\/} cp $i $writeloc done echo '] done.' # ensure /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/defkeymap.c is built from OUR map. touch speakupmap.map -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061