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+This is an archive of the speakup project's GIT HEAD snapped on the given
+day, and was used to build the speakup.s kernel.  Grabbing Speakup's GIT
+repo (if you want the very latest) is done like this, by the way:
+
+git-clone http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
+
+To build the same kernel as Slackware included as speakup.s, you'll
+need to do this:
+
+Untar the speakup archive, and cd into the speakup directory:
+
+tar xf speakup-3.0.3_20081026.tar.bz2
+cd speakup-3.0.3_20081026
+
+Patch whatever kernel you happen to want to compile:
+./install /usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6
+
+Change to the kernel directory:
+cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.29.6
+
+If you want to start with the defaults one of Slackware's kernels, you can do
+that like this:
+
+cat /boot/vmlinuz-huge-2.6.29.6 > .config
+
+Or, better yet, if you have access to the Slackware tree use the
+Speakup .config that was used:
+
+cat (slacktree)/kernels/speakup.s/config > .config
+
+Then do any additional configuation to the kernel that you may require:
+
+make menuconfig
+
+After that, it's build and install:
+make
+make modules_install
+make bzImage
+cat arch/x86/boot/bzImage > /boot/vmlinuz-huge-2.6.29.6-speakup
+
+I put the -speakup on the end of the kernel name so that I can remember
+which kernel I've patched, but that part is entirely optional.
+
+The next step will be to edit add the new kernel's modules to an initrd if
+you use one (if you didn't build in the root filesystem or something like
+that you will need an initrd).  See "man mkinitrd" for more details on the
+subject of making an initrd.
+
+Now just add the new kernel (and possibly the /boot/initrd.gz) to
+/etc/lilo.conf, run lilo as root, and you are ready to reboot.  Make sure
+to use an append="speakup parameters" type line in /etc/lilo.conf to
+configure speakup to use the proper synth driver.  You many also need to
+specify the serial port or other parameters, like this:
+
+append="speakup.synth=dectlk speakup.ser=2"
+
+This line would attempt to use Speakup with a DecTalk Express on /dev/ttyS1.
+
+Note that with Speakup 3.x, the kernel parameter names have changed to
+contain dots rather than underscores.  Other options have changed as
+well.  Although perhaps not a complete list, I found these changes noted
+on the linuxfromscratch web site:
+
+speakup_synth became speakup.synth, and the "sftsyn" synthesizer became "soft";
+
+speakup_ser became speakup.ser, and serial ports are now numbered starting from 1,
+not from 0 (i.e., speakup_ser=1 became speakup.ser=2);
+
+speakup_quiet became speakup.quiet, valid values are 0 and 1;
+
+speakup_port became speakup.port.
+
+Good luck!  :-)
+
+Pat
+