Hi Kelly. I think the Redhat kernel you are trying to use is too old. The standard 2.4 kernels that Speakup works with are now 2.4.26 or later, or 2.6.10 or later. Gene >I am running whitebox linux which is a redhat enterprise linux clone... >the version of whitebox is 3.0 >the kernel version is 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL >the speakup version is from cvs and I got it today with the checkout >script. >I am trying to apply the speakup patches to the kernel, but when I compile I >get the following error: > >make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/drivers/char/spea kup' >gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/include -Wall -Wstrict-prot otypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -fomit- frame-pointer -pipe -freorder-blocks -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=speakup -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c s peakup.c >speakup.c: In function `say_from_to': >speakup.c:917: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast >speakup.c: In function `chars_write_proc': >speakup.c:1599: structure has no member named `list' >speakup.c: In function `handle_cursor': >speakup.c:1818: structure has no member named `list' >make[4]: *** [speakup.o] Error 1 >make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/drivers/char/speak up' >make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 >make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/drivers/char/speak up' >make[2]: *** [_subdir_speakup] Error 2 >make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/drivers/char' >make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2 >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL/drivers' >make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 > >I think this is related to the timer declarations in spk_priv.h. >Thats as far as I can get... I am not really a hot c programmer. >Can anyone help me by giving pointers as to how I can get this error to go awa y >so the compile can finish? > >Thanks much... > >--Kelly Prescott > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
