Re: Mandrake 8.1 problem

From: "Thomas Ward" <tward@bright.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.1 problem
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:19:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002601c1a265$2e999be0$0100a8c0@tward> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201202005390.4142-100000@wb2flw.octothorp.org>

Hi, if I could get the Mandrake source tree to build without errors I would.
Well, I guess propriatary wasn't the right word. What I really should have
said is Mandrake only enhancements such as drivers, processor optimization,
and all sorts of other things.
However, Mandrake comes with some pretty cool stuff. I would be happy to try
and make a talking Mandrake distribution with someones guidance.

----- Original Message -----
From: William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 <wacker@octothorp.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.1 problem

> The GPL wouldn't allow that, so I'm pretty sure that Mandrake doesn't make
> proprietary changes to the kernel.  I imagine that Mandrake patches their
> version of the kernel in order to support extra hardware much as RedHat
> does.  It's a shame that you didn't stick with it and post Speakup enabled
> MDK RPMs for those wishing to try out that distro.
>
>
>
>           Bill in Denver
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
> > Hi, I got the same problems when trying to build my own Speakup kernels
for
> > Mandrake 8.1.
> > I solved it by download the kernel sources from kernel.org, and used
that.
> > As to your question Mandrake makes propriatary  changes to there kernel
> > sources.
> > So I tend to get generic kernel sources, and that works fine.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ron Marriage <marriage@seidata.com>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 5:55 PM
> > Subject: Mandrake 8.1 problem
> >
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > New to the list, have been running Emacspeak but want to try
> > > speakup.
> > > I have the sources for kernel 2.4.8
> > > I downloaded the speakup 1.0 tarball and unzipped it in
> > > /usr/src
> > > I ran install and it did it's think, some hunk fails for non
> > > 386 systems.
> > > I ran
> > > make mrproper
> > > make config
> > > make dep
> > > make bzImage
> > > make modules
> > >
> > > I answered yes to the speakup config and choice the ltlk
> > > synth and set it as default.
> > > it compiled with some errors for the speakup.
> > > Never created a bzImage file in
> > > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot
> > >
> > > Is there something about Mandrake that is different?
> > > Did I leave out or do something I shouldn't have?
> > > did not run
> > > make modules_install yet.
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated.
> > > Ron
> > > --
> > > Ron Marriage
> > > Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/
> > > Email  mailto:marriage@seidata.com
> > > Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/
> > > Blind Links  http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html
> > >
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