I'd like to suggest a few changes to the installation instructions for these speakup mods for software synth. The reason is that it was not very clear to me, and it took me quite a while to figure this out. This is what I suggest: In this section: > Then get the latest copy of the speakup cvs: > % cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS login > % Password: please > % cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS checkout speakup I suggest that you say cd /usr/src before doing the above Then in this section > and unpack our modifications into it: > % cp /path/to/speakup-modifications.tar.gz ./ > % yes|tar -xvf speakup-modifications.tar.gz This relative addressing (ie ./) is confusing. It would be much more clear to say this: cp speakup-modifications.tar.gz /usr/src cd /usr/src tar xzvf speakup-modifications.tar.gz What I did mistakenly was untar the mods inside the speakup directory. That really messed me up :) I was mislead by the phrase "into it" ... and the docs don't say "where you are" (ie what is ./) Then in the patching process: > then go and patch the kernel: > % cd .. > % cp speakup/install ./ > % ./install This really confused me. Again, this relative ./ stuff doesn't do much if the reader is not clear where he should be in the heirarchy. This would be a lot more clear: cd /usr/src/speakup cp install /usr/src cd /usr/src ./install BTW the speakup docs are wrong because they say to execute this install script from within the speakup dir, which fails, because there is a command cp speakup ... the script was obviously intended to be run from the parent of the speakup dir, which is a bit strange if you ask me. I managed to figure this out and apply the patches with no errors, but those docs confused me ... Geez I sound like I'm complaining ... this is not the case ... I am HAPPY to find this software synth, so to Owen and ther others who did this work: thank you! -- Doug
