I've patched the rhel 3 and rhel 5 kernels before and it definitely isn't an easy job, because the rhel kernel is a hybrid kernel with backported features and bug fixes. It basically requires patching parts of the patch by hand. On rhel 5 the problem is compounded by the fact that speakup no longer supports kernels prior to 2.6.24, as the kobject implementation changed in 2.6.24. I did manage to get speakup to compile by trying to backport the new kobject implementation, similar to how it was done for the infiniband driver, but the speakup_dectlk driver is not able to detect the synth. I suspect the result would be the same with other drivers. I haven't tried software speech as I'm having trouble getting sound to work and I haven't had any time lately to work on it. Since my time is limited, I think I will install fc12 and then try my luck when rhel 6 is out, hopefully this spring. I would recommend that the speakup developers remove the patches for the kernels before 2.6.24, as speakup will not compile against these kernels with the older kobject implementation. Or perhaps there is an older version of speakup in git that uses the older kobject implementation? Hth, Trevor On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Tim Culhane wrote: > Hi, > > Does Speakup work with the centOS linux distribution. I believe that centOS > is very similar to RedHat Enterprise Linux, so I'm interested in exploring > the possibility of using this distribution. > > I read in the archive to this list that somebody patched the centOS kernel > with Speakup a while back, but it wasn't an easy job. > > Has anything changed since then? > > Any help appreciated, > > Tim > > > ------------------------- > Tim Culhane, > Critical Path Ireland, > 42-47 Lower Mount Street, > Dublin 2. > Direct line: 353-1-2415107 > phone: 353-1-2415000 > > Tim.culhane at criticalpath.net > http://www.criticalpath.net > > Critical Path > a global leader in digital communications > ------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
