From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5BA391EF9C0; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:09:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from dragnet.batsupport.com (dragnet.batsupport.com [176.9.155.71]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4EBA1EF9BA for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:09:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.34] (ip98-176-28-163.sd.sd.cox.net [98.176.28.163]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bats@batsupport.com) by dragnet.batsupport.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6BD0D1F0026B for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 03:24:12 -0800 (PST) To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: Tony Baechler Subject: Announcing kernel 4.3.3 with serial speech Organization: Baechler Access Technology Services Message-ID: <56D18758.9020605@baechler.net> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 03:24:08 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:09:57 -0000 All, As the subject says, I've now built 64-bit unofficial Debian kernel 4.3.3 packages with working serial synth support. I haven't built 32-bit packages at this time, but I will if I get enough requests and assuming the 64-bit packages work. I tested the kernel image here and my DECtalk Express talked, but actual testing has been minimal. Thanks to Samuel Thibault, John Covici and John Heim for their help. Before you download, please read and agree to the following: 1. These packages are provided as-is and are totally unsupported. If something breaks, I'm interested in knowing about it, but I probably won't fix it. It works here more or less. 2. Make sure not to load any other Speakup modules once the serial synth driver is loaded. Specifically, I had speakup_dectlk in my initramfs and speakup_soft in /etc/modules. The system locked up during boot until speakup_soft was commented out. Double check both /etc/modules and /etc/initramfs-tools/modules on Debian-based systems to make sure you aren't loading multiple synths. 3. While these packages are built with make-kpkg and should work on both Debian and Ubuntu, they haven't been tested at all on Ubuntu and are not official packages. Therefore, there is no security support and you use them entirely at your own risk. There is currently no apt repository. All you need is the kernel-image package, but kernel-headers, kernel-image-dbg, etc are provided for completeness. Checksums can be found in the .dsc file. Here is the download link: http://classicradio.us/kernel-amd64/ If there is enough demand and interest, I could set up an automated build system as new stable kernels are released, but this is a low priority. At least there is a recent kernel which supports hardware speech. -- Tony Baechler, founder, Baechler Access Technology Services Putting accessibility at the forefront of technology mailto:bats@batsupport.com Phone: 1-619-746-8310 SMS text: 1-619-375-2545