From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mxsf23.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.223]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CCoOX-0006wQ-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:02:01 -0400 Received: from mxip11.cluster1.charter.net (mxip11a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.141]) by mxsf23.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8U01TNG029547 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:01:29 -0400 Received: from res-24-197-136-001.spa.sc.charter.com (HELO haneyhbmu5pv2g) (24.197.136.1) by mxip11.cluster1.charter.net with SMTP; 29 Sep 2004 20:01:30 -0400 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.84,186,1091419200"; d="scan'208"; a="362252998:sNHT15423408" Message-ID: <003f01c4a680$a47ac330$0300a8c0@haneyhbmu5pv2g> From: "Ameer Armaly" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20040929175604.GS7958@rednote.net><20040929204131.GA14532@rogers.com> <20040929210228.GJ3843@tomass.dyndns.org> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:01:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original 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: Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook 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, 30 Sep 2004 00:02:01 -0000 You don't even have to run genmap; just recompile and it's a standard target in speakup. --- Life is either tragedy or comedy. Usually it's your choice. You can whine or you can laugh. --Animorphs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Stivers" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Laptop keymap... was: battery on notebook > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Sep 29 2004 at 04:41:31PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Yes, Janina, you are right here. It is part of the speakup patches >> applied when you select speakup in the configuration of your kernel. I >> designed the keymapping to emulate the numeric keypad layout for the most >> part. David Borowski integrated it into the speakup patches and Kirk >> included it with them in CVS speakup. >> >> This was done over a year ago, and David said that he was thinking of >> making user-definable keymappings easy at that time, I haven't heard from >> him in a long time. So I don't know if this is still in his 'to-do' list >> or not. > > When you compile a kernel with speakup there should be an executable > called genmap created in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/speakup. Use this > program as follows after you make the changes you want to > speakupmap.map. > > ./genkey speakupmap.map >/proc/speakup/keymap > > This should update the keymap in the currently running speakup. What I > have done is to write a keymap to /etc/speakup/ and then used > speakupconf to load and save it. Since I haven't done this in a while > standard disclaimers apply, YMMV, Etc. > > HTH > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBWyLk5JK61UXLur0RArUwAJ49aSr4AoUafAhmH4/ZDbtVo/aWRACfaD5v > pzr1I7UreXf0YwsKpo5UtrE= > =xM1h > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup