Is there a precompiled kernel (or at least a patched one I can build) for FC4 please? That's what I'm using, and up until now, I had been just fine using it on remote, but after my windows Laptop crashed, I realized I need the more stable Linux box to be on hand, with speach. Cheers, Chris Norman <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com --> Selling cheap but functional shell accounts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Bowers" <onedingo@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:03 PM Subject: Precompiled Speakup kernel for Ubuntu 5.10 > Hey. > > Does anyone know where to find a precompiled speakup kernel for Ubuntu > 5.10? Maybe something to add to the sources.list file? > > Last night I tried (once again) to do this manually (2.6.14.5 from > kernel.org + speakup cvs), but after 5+ hours of waiting had to shut it > down. > > Is this normal to compile for that length of time on a Pentium 233 MMX > (Socket 7) / 128 meg RAM? > > I had removed a lot of modules/support in make menuconfig that I know > would not be in that machine but it still seems a little excessive. > > BTW, I might as well mention what this machine's layout is. > > It has 2 users, one sighted and using Win98SE on hda1 (2.5gig C Drive) + > swap (win386.swp) on hdb1 (500 meg D Drive). The other is completely blind > and will be using some linux/speakup combination installed with / (root) > on hda2 (5.9 gig) and linux swap on hdb2 (500 meg). hdb3 (19 gig) is a big > ext3 partition used to dd_rescue a full backup image of hda to a file in > the rare event I mess something up. Speech synth is a DoubleTalk PC > Internal. > > On startup, the machine boots straight to DOS. The sighted user types win > at this point because Gnome desktop is just too slow to be usable on this > machine. When the blind user wants to use the machine, he determines it's > current state (DOS, Windows, Linux) by pressing the Print Screen key. No > beep means it's been left in windows and CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-Z will reboot it, > a beep means DOS and typing linux.bat will load linux through loadlin, > "You killed speakup" or "I'm alive" and it's in Linux and ready for use. > > Hopefully the above info will be helpful to someone looking to do the > same. > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
