From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.192]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Es3zZ-0000lj-00 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:03:17 -0500 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s7so1273829wxc for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:03:16 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lT9OTj6UiQt0d2/kWLO4K79cyvPPYttF0GtYvuTpQQPixoZSY8w9ZGS/HAyeUeCgwA5yeMAUCp1y4/oozwz/JPl6bU94WV7SJe7tYD7XQIXzkNjhonHZo2elzQmOsLJ1KH2PdWiAbGu1qF0dLRDqS+bcTJlsF2xChrtLJ1fgO9E= Received: by 10.70.99.13 with SMTP id w13mr9307591wxb; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:03:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.5? ( [141.158.100.118]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i37sm14842944wxd.2005.12.29.12.03.15; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:03:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43B4410B.5010806@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:03:23 -0500 From: Rob Bowers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 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 20:03:17 -0000 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