* help with cvs speakup
@ Michael Damien Curran
` Kirk Reiser
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Michael Damien Curran @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi all,
I have patched a 2.4.20 kernel with the newist cvs speakup (using the
checkout script).
I have said y to the speakup doubletalk internal driver and also to the
speakup bns driver.
I compiled the kernel fine and installed it fine. now: when I reboot I get
"doubletalk pc found" or "braille and speak found" and then nothing, can't
move around with the speakup cursor, don't get any kernel console
messages... just nothing. This has been the case through all the cvs updates
from the start of speakup2 up until my last cvs checkout which was 10
minutes ago.
I have also tried not using the checkout script and just manually grabbbing
speakup from cvs and then ./speakup/install (this does exactly the same).
speakup-1.5 works absolutly fine.
I am running Debian Testing on both the machines I've tried it on. (A
Toshiba Te2000 laptop and a Pentium3 733 desktop). The same results.
Is there something new I have to do to get speakup2 to work? any special
kernel parameters (excluding speakup_synth=bns/dtlk)?
And in my kernel config I said y to speakup, y to bns, y to dtlk, bns to
default synth and y to use speakup as default keymap.
Is there any other things I need to say y to in the kernel?
I do obviously have VT support and console on VT support, I also have the
standard serial support etc.
I'm really looking forward to using speakup2, from the emails I've been
reading today, its going pretty fantasticly ... (except for on my machines).
Thanks
Mick
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* Re: help with cvs speakup
help with cvs speakup Michael Damien Curran
@ ` Kirk Reiser
` Michael Curran
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Kirk Reiser @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hey Mick, it looks as though you are doing everything correctly.
Obviously that's no incouragement if it isn't working. If you have the
drivers built-in with 'y' in the configuration are you still passing
the speakup_synth kernel command line option? If so, do it without
out the switch. I suspect you are already doing it without the switch
but want to be pedantic. I use the DoubleTalk pc as you know and it
comes up chattering just like it always did. The kernel is booting
right? After it says Doubletalk found or whatever it does go on and
boot to a login prompt? If so, and you can ssh into the box and look
at the dmesg output to see what's up.
Kirk
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phone: (519) 661-3061
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` Kirk Reiser
@ ` Michael Curran
` Kirk Reiser
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Michael Curran @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi,
The kernel doesn't even boot at all, it just says "braille and speak found"
and thats it, no hard drive activity what so ever.
Even if I route kernel console to the serial port I get nothing at all...
Its been like this on all the computers I've tried it on and only with the
cvs speakup, as I say, speakup-1.5 works absolutly fine.
Perhaps it could be that I'm using gcc-3.2?
Oh... I must also say (and perhaps this is why) when I make my kernel with
speakup patched in (and I think this is only with cvs) I get an error like
"cc: command not found" ... I fix this by doing ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-3.2
/usr/bin/cc.
Is this the write thing to do?
It makes with no errors...
(sorry, I completely forgot about that).
Mick
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:27:15AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Hey Mick, it looks as though you are doing everything correctly.
> Obviously that's no incouragement if it isn't working. If you have the
> drivers built-in with 'y' in the configuration are you still passing
> the speakup_synth kernel command line option? If so, do it without
> out the switch. I suspect you are already doing it without the switch
> but want to be pedantic. I use the DoubleTalk pc as you know and it
> comes up chattering just like it always did. The kernel is booting
> right? After it says Doubletalk found or whatever it does go on and
> boot to a login prompt? If so, and you can ssh into the box and look
> at the dmesg output to see what's up.
>
> Kirk
>
> --
>
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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` Michael Curran
@ ` Kirk Reiser
` Steve Holmes
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Kirk Reiser @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
I seem to be using gcc 3.2.3 according to gcc --version on this box.
I have never had to do any fiddling to get it to compile. Well never
isn't true but not for a long long time.
It sounds to me as though you don't have something critical configured
into your menuconfig. Try saying 'n' to speakup and see if it boots
just fine just for grins. Oh, John jst asked if you have devfs
configured in? I understand there's a problem with devfs once again
but I haven't looked into it yet.
Kirk
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e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061
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` Kirk Reiser
@ ` Steve Holmes
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
About the kernel not booting,
I ran into some wierd problems earlier this week with kernels and
compiler versions not matching up. I recently upgraded my machine to
slackware 9.0 which uses gcc 3.2.2 throughout but my older kernel
images (from floppy) were still the 2.95 ones and they would not boot
at all and speakup began acting very strangely. All this came about
for me because I did that *BIG* *BIG* mistake of compiling a new
kernel, forgetting to run lilo, then reboot! Once I got back into
that machine and updated lilo the new kernels have all worked great
with either version of speakup. Oh, I just checked and devfs is not
configured in for my kernels. Anyhow, since that day I haven't had
any problems with my kernels booting, thank God.
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* Help with CVS speakup
@ Lorenzo Prince
` Kirk Reiser
` John Covici
0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Can anyone tell me if there is a way in the CVS speakup to read menus like
in pkgtool? I can't get it to read the menu at all. When I hit an arrow
key, it just says "OK Cancel." Is this something that will be fixed in
the future, or is there a different way to select things now?
Lorenzo
lp1 on fire
-- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages
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