Hi all, I've noticed that there has been quite a bit of confusion reguarding the failed patching of miscdevice.h on kernels 2.4.21 and later. (this is only true in the 2.4 series) I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone, but below is a patch that will cause speakup to install with no failed hunks on these kernels. Simply apply this patch to speakup 1.5 before you run ./install. If you simply copy this entire message to the speakup 1.5 subdirectory on your system, then run patch -p1 < [name of file containing patch] it should patch your speakup source just fine. Patch is smart enough to skip the other text of this message and only process the patch. Note, once you apply this patch, you can't use that copy of speakup to install to any 2.4 series kernel earlier than 2.4.21. Only apply this patch if you have 2.4.21 or later. diff -u -r speakup-1.5.old/speakup/patchlist-v24 speakup-1.5/speakup/patchlist-v24 --- speakup-1.5.old/speakup/patchlist-v24 2003-04-14 10:07:44.000000000 -0600 +++ speakup-1.5/speakup/patchlist-v24 2003-10-29 01:08:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ 1,/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/selection.c 1,/usr/src/linux/fs/proc/root.c 1,/usr/src/linux/include/linux/keyboard.h -1,/usr/src/linux/include/linux/miscdevice.h 1,/usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h 1,/usr/src/linux/init/main.c 0,/usr/src/linux/Documentation/speakup/DefaultKeyAssignments If this helps anyone, great. If not, sorry for the wasted bandwidth. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net
