Hi. The Debian speakup kernels have speakup built in instead of being modules. Hope this helps. Kenny On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:40:17AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: > Hello, > Once the laptop was running, I ssh-ed intoo it from my desktop where I > have speech. > I looked for the speakup kernel modules and could not find them. > It does look like the standard 2.6 kernel. > Regards, Willem > > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, John G. Heim wrote: > > >One mistake I made the first time I installed speakup is that I installed > >the 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 speakup-modified kernel. You're given a > >choice but if you install the 2.6 kernel, then you don't get speakup. > > > >One thing that isn't clear in your message is how you know speakup isn't > >there. You don't have a synth so obviously, it's not speaking. You say you > >have sighted assistance so I'm guessing your friend installed it for you? > >Probably speech wasn't working during the install either, right? > > > >I have an external synth but I know that if I don't have it connected and > >turned on at boot time, I don't get speech. There is probably some way to > >get it started but usually, I just reboot. > > > > > >At 10:16 AM 7/8/2005, you wrote: > >>Hello, > >>I downloaded the Debian modified distribution with speakup built in. > >>I want to get software speech going on a laptop for which i do not have a > >>hw synth. > >>I'll have some sighted help. > >>I tried and got a linux running, but it does not look as if speakup is > >>there. > >>I will ssh into the laptop once the linux is running from my desktop. > >>I intend to then configure the software speech. Most people here are > >>using Debian, but I have only worked with Redhat/Fedora reasently > >>and with Slacware long ago. > >>Any tips welcome. > >>TIA > >>Willem > >> > >> > >>-- > >>This message has been scanned for viruses and > >>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > >>believed to be clean. > >>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >> > >>Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > >-- > >John G. Heim > >jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >3-4189 > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list