Precompiled Speakup kernel for Ubuntu 5.10

Precompiled Speakup kernel for Ubuntu 5.10

[Rob Bowers]

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

Re: Precompiled Speakup kernel for Ubuntu 5.10

[Chris Norman]

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
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Bowers" <onedingo@gmail.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
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
>
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