I have a question about these speakup mods. In the instructions it says this: then go and patch the kernel: % cd .. % cp speakup/install ./ % ./install I'm confused about that cp speakup/install ./ command, what does that do? the cd .. is executed from the middleware dir so after that I am in the speakup directory. The install script is already there. So what is that cp speakup/install for? What these instructions don't say is where you are when you execute these commands. In the speakup install docs it says simply untar the distribution to /usr/src, cd to speakup-1.100 and execute ./install Why is there a cp command in these instructions? http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux/installation_instructions.txt Thanks, Doug I am trying to get speakup working with festival. Not getting very far ... I have the stock slackware 9 kernel source, which is the unmodified 2.4.20 linked to /usr/src/linux I grabbed the speakup modifications from here: http://www.wpi.edu/~blinux/releases/speakup-modifications-20030403.tar.gz And grabbed the speakup source from CVS. The middleware program compiled fine. When I run the install script to patch the kernel I get this: Patching version 24 Creating .orig files [cat: /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup/patchlist-v24: No such file or directory ] done. Patching files [ppatch: Changes: extra operand patch: Try 'patch --help' for more information. ] done. Copying files [ccp: copying multiple files, but last argument 'symbols.h' is not a directory Try 'cp --help' for more information. ] done. So I decided to just try installing the speakup-1.00 kernel patches that are here, to see if that works: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/speakup-1.00.tar.gz I blew away the kernel source tree and created a new one. Running install from speakup-1.00 does this: Patching version v24 Creating .orig files [..................] done. Patching files [ppppppp1 out of 1 hubk FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/src/linux/arch/mips/config.in.rej pppppppppp1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/miscdevice.h.rej pp] done. Copying files [ccccc] done. It looks like the old speakup-1.00 got further, but even that failed in patching. Any ideas? Should this work with 2.4.20? How can I patch manually since the script is failing? Thanks, Doug _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
