From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Es6ah-0002GC-00 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:49:47 -0500 Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20051229224916.JRQK17804.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:49:16 +0000 Received: from sparky ([86.20.72.172]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP id <20051229224916.ETVG774.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@sparky> for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:49:16 +0000 Message-ID: <001a01c60d0c$6e1d9940$1d02a8c0@sparky> From: "Chris Norman" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <43B4410B.5010806@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:44:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: Precompiled Speakup kernel for Ubuntu 5.10 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:49:48 -0000 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 Selling cheap but functional shell accounts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Bowers" To: 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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup