Version of Speakup in latest kernel
Henrik Nilsen Omma
henrik at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 19 11:09:53 BST 2007
Hi Garry,
(I replied to your email, but this is likely of general interest so I'll
repost here.)
There are several problems with speakup in the kernel going forward. The
crux is that the speakup project has not been following the mainline
kernel development closely enough and has not managed to to integrate
their work into the main line kernel code.
We have decided to drop support for speakup in the Gutsy kernel and I
hear Gentoo is doing the same. I'm afraid it's simply too complex to
maintain over time. There have been long debates about this on the
speakup list already. I'm not sure speakup will even compile with the
new 2.6.22 kernels (not just in Ubuntu; anywhere).
So you'll probably be able to compile a newer speakup version with a
Feisty 2.6.20 kernel, and a .deb could be made, but going forward it
will be tricky. My suggestion is to start looking at a user space
solution, perhaps based on brltty.
Henrik
Garry Turkington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in a bit of a transition period as I move several machines over to
> Ubuntu. One is a VIA C3 box with no audio connection, I access it via
> Speakup using a Dectalk Express.
>
> I was very pleasantly surprised to see the stock Ubuntu kernel comes with
> Speakup pre-built, that at a stroke will make my life much easier.
> However, due to interrupt changes in the 2.6.20 kernel the Speakup Dectalk
> Express driver was broken for a while. Downloading the latest Ubuntu
> kernel sources it appears it's using Speakup from October 2006 - the
> Dectalk Express fixes went in with the April 13 commit this year.
>
> So, are there plans for the stock kernel to update its included Speakup
> version to the latest CVS? Years of rpmbuild has clearly rotted my brain
> as I have been encountering some ahem user error in trying to hand-update
> the sources myself and rebuild. Or is this a question best aimed at the
> kernel list (assuming there is one)?
>
> Thanks,
> Garry
>
>
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