From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([63.224.68.2]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19G8JF-00075C-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 22:17:29 -0400 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org (wb2flw.octothorp.org [127.0.0.1]) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4F2HILc008154 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 02:17:18 GMT Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id h4F2HIRZ008149 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 20:17:18 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:17:18 -0600 (MDT) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Got it running (was Re: best way to install rh9?) In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030514203729.00c30e98@mail.surferie.net> Message-ID: References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030508145734.00c38e70@mail.surferie.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20030507230358.00c216f8@mail.surferie.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20030507230358.00c216f8@mail.surferie.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20030508145734.00c38e70@mail.surferie.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20030514203729.00c30e98@mail.surferie.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, For the future, it isn't necessary to patch miscdevice.h. RH already defines 10, 25 for the synth device. The only difference is that the code from CVS puts in a #ifdef CONFig_SPEAKUP so the device wouldn't be added if SPEAKUP wasn't set. HTH. -- Bill On Wed, 14 May 2003, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > Thanks much to everyone who answered my questions about installing rh9. > I've got rh9 and cvs speakup up and running after handpatching keyboard.c > and miscdevice.h. I must say it's better than rh7 which was the version I > last used. However, how do I adjust the firewall level? I see a gui tool > for doing it but nothing for textmode. > One last question: How safe is it to divert away from the rh-supplied > kernel configs? One of the problems in rh7 seemed to be that if I deviated > too far from the rh standard, my modules would have many unresolved > symbols, never could figure out why. Does this still happen? > Thanks again. > > At 21:43 5/12/2003 -0600, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > In /usr/src//drivers/char/keyboard.c, find the lines > >that say > >static struct kbd_struct * kbd = kbd_table; > >static struct tty_struct * tty; > >Presently, they're on lines 101 and 102. Remove the word static and the > >space after it from the beginning of each line. This is after the > >checkout program attempts to patch the file. I have no idea what the next > >line does. That appears to be the one that RH adds. > > HTH. >