This thread got my attention. I've been sadly speechless since moving to this new system that doesn't have on-board serial ports, and my serial dectalk express is sitting here doing nothing. I plan to set up software speech, but I really do miss boot-time speech. If I get a USB to serial converter and build support into the kernel for it, will I be able to use my serial Dectalk Express again once USB device detection has completed? If so, will I need to apply John's hack/bug fix/work-around/whatever you want to call it? Keith -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John G. Heim Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 9:19 AM To: tyler at tysdomain.com; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Attention John Heim, About your Custome Kernel? Well, it would probably be easier just to build a patched kernel. It's really not that difficult to patch the kernel. At one time I put out just the patch. I can probably do that yet today. Of course, you don't really even need my patch. You can just comment out that one line of code. Right now, I can't give the exact location of the line in question but it would be in the archives. I'll try to put up a document on www.iavit.org (The International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists) with details on patching the code and a link to my custom 64-bit kernel. On 02/09/14 00:09, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > It won't actually run on a 32-bit system if it's built for 64 bits. If > he provides the kernel's config, you may be able to toggle the 64-bit > option on or off, but I can't guarantee success! > HTH, > On 2/9/2014 12:31 AM, Hart Larry wrote: >> OK, I wanted to try John's later kernel, which might let me still run >> a DecTalk U S B. But the immage is an amd64. Would their be a way of >> converting to 32bit, or would it actually run? Thanks so much in advance. >> Hart >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
