Hi,
For the future, it isn't necessary to patch miscdevice.h. RH already
defines 10, 25 for the synth device. The only difference is that the code
from CVS puts in a #ifdef CONFig_SPEAKUP so the device wouldn't be added
if
SPEAKUP wasn't set.
HTH.
--
Bill
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi
> Thanks much to everyone who answered my questions about installing rh9.
> I've got rh9 and cvs speakup up and running after handpatching keyboard.c
> and miscdevice.h. I must say it's better than rh7 which was the version I
> last used. However, how do I adjust the firewall level? I see a gui tool
> for doing it but nothing for textmode.
> One last question: How safe is it to divert away from the rh-supplied
> kernel configs? One of the problems in rh7 seemed to be that if I deviated
> too far from the rh standard, my modules would have many unresolved
> symbols, never could figure out why. Does this still happen?
> Thanks again.
>
> At 21:43 5/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> > In /usr/src/<linux_directory>/drivers/char/keyboard.c, find the lines
> >that say
> >static struct kbd_struct * kbd = kbd_table;
> >static struct tty_struct * tty;
> >Presently, they're on lines 101 and 102. Remove the word static and the
> >space after it from the beginning of each line. This is after the
> >checkout program attempts to patch the file. I have no idea what the next
> >line does. That appears to be the one that RH adds.
> > HTH.
>
