Re: installing speakup

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Daniel Dalton wrote:

On 13/11/2007 3:38 AM, John Heim wrote:
 Do you require a custom kernel? It would be easier to download a kernel
 with speakup already compiled in. You can do that by going to

OK. So I just get the kernel install it with apt and reboot? No messing with bootloaders is required?

I think Debian kernel packages are meant to take care of that for you. But it probably doesn't hurt to check your bootloader's file (/boot/grub/menu.lst if using Grub) just to be sure.

 http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernell/.

The link didn't work for me?

The full stop at the end of the sentence probably messed it up. Try it without it.

http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel/

Works for me.

Or could I just download it to my system and install it manually?
If so how?

Yes, you can do that.

dpkg --install linux-image-2.6.18-4-speakup-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12.1_i386.deb

Good luck,
Geoff.

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