Lorenzo, I did the speakup patches last night. I too had some problems initially. I put together a mini howto. Here is an excerpt, just the part that does the speakup patches (I will post the full document a bit later) ... Get the speakup source code from CVS: cd /usr/src 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 You will see a new directory /usr/src/speakup The next step is to patch the linux kernel with speakup and the modifications for sound card, which are already extracted into the /usr/src/speakup directory. Download the linux kernel source, for example: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.20.tar.gz Prepare the kernel source cp linux-2.4.20.tar.gz /usr/src cd /usr/src tar xzvf linux-2.4.20.tar.gz rm linux ln -s linux-2.4.20 linux cd linux make mrproper Now the kernel needs to be patched with speakup cd /usr/src/speakup cp install /usr/src cd /usr/src ./install Hopefully you will get a message indicating that the patches were applied without errors. If you get errors you will need to figure out why before proceeding further. After the patches are applied, compile the linux kernel: cd /usr/src/linux Configure the linux kernel using make config or make menuconfig If you are not clear on which options to include, you can compare to a working kernel configuration. There are working kernel configuration examples here: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/kernels/ For example, here is the bare.i (default) slackware kernel config ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/kernels/bare.i/config Or look at your existing (working) kernel configuration. On slackware 9.0, you can view kernel configurations in the /boot directory. There should be a symbolic link from /boot/config to your configuration. For example, the default bare/i kernel is /boot/config-ide-2.4.20 The speakup patches add some new items in the kernel config. In the console drivers section, there should be a new item listed as "Speakup console speech". You will see a list of synthesizers there, and you can set the default synthesizer in the kernel config also (it defaults to "none", you can set it to any synth you want). I will post the full document shortly. Hope this helps. -- Doug
