I was interested in this question because there is the other bug where
speakup cannot talk to most serial hardware speech synthesizers. It
would be nice to be able to patch, compile, and install just the one
module that causes that. But googling for info on compiling and
installing a single module seems to indicate that it's no easier
(probably harder) than compiling the whole kernel.
Depending on your distro, recompiling the kernel isn't too hard. I have
a script for ubuntu that does the whole thing from downloading the
source to installing my patch to compiling the kernel. It's routine. It
does take a long time but you don't have to sit there and watch it the
whole time.
You should submit a bug report though so eventually, everyone can
benefit from your patch.
On 08/03/2015 03:11 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
Hi all,
I've just been doing some poking around in the kernel sources and I see
that Speakup is in staging. A mention of this on the web site would be
helpful since I thought, based on what the site says, that it's still in
the old git repository and was disappointed to see that none of the code
had been updated in years. Anyway, someone is having a problem with the
DECtalk dropping pitch randomly. While I can't reproduce it here, I see
that speakup_dectlk.c has a line to drop the pitch to 100, so presumably
changing it to 120 would fix the problem.
My question is this: Once I make the change, how do I recompile the
Speakup modules? Do I have to compile a new kernel from scratch? I
really don't want to build a new kernel just for a single line change.
If I can't just build Speakup, can I only build the staging drivers? I
see a Makefile in the Speakup source, but it looks like it won't work by
itself. I read the README in staging, but it talked about compiling
everything. I am not a programmer and I'm not sure where to look. The
kernel README said to look at the Changes file, but that isn't in the
staging tree. I fear I have to download a full kernel release and do a
full compile. Is this correct?
Finally, how do you get hardware speech working on kernels after
2.6.32? I know of someone running 3.16 and he says it works, but I just
installed 4.0 from Debian testing and it appeared to lock up the machine
when I loaded the speakup_dectlk module. This is the linux-image-686
metapackage. How can I get around this and use official Debian kernels?
Thanks very much for your help.
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