You don't even have to run genmap; just recompile and it's a standard target in speakup. --- Life is either tragedy or comedy. Usually it's your choice. You can whine or you can laugh. --Animorphs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Sep 29 2004 at 04:41:31PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Yes, Janina, you are right here. It is part of the speakup patches >> applied when you select speakup in the configuration of your kernel. I >> designed the keymapping to emulate the numeric keypad layout for the most >> part. David Borowski integrated it into the speakup patches and Kirk >> included it with them in CVS speakup. >> >> This was done over a year ago, and David said that he was thinking of >> making user-definable keymappings easy at that time, I haven't heard from >> him in a long time. So I don't know if this is still in his 'to-do' list >> or not. > > When you compile a kernel with speakup there should be an executable > called genmap created in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup. Use this > program as follows after you make the changes you want to > speakupmap.map. > > ./genkey speakupmap.map >/proc/speakup/keymap > > This should update the keymap in the currently running speakup. What I > have done is to write a keymap to /etc/speakup/ and then used > speakupconf to load and save it. Since I haven't done this in a while > standard disclaimers apply, YMMV, Etc. > > HTH > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBWyLk5JK61UXLur0RArUwAJ49aSr4AoUafAhmH4/ZDbtVo/aWRACfaD5v > pzr1I7UreXf0YwsKpo5UtrE= > =xM1h > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
