Ah, yes. Excuse me for getting it wrong. Just trying to move too fast today, I guess. One possible reason, and there are certainly several possibilities, is the directory name after extracting the tarball. It needs to be linux, or it needs a symlink named linux. I don't recall now whether that is the default. On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote: > I think her problem was she downloaded a fresh 2.4.5 kernel and tried > applying a CVS patch to it and could not find the modules. She wasn't clear > on what steps she took but this is my interpretation of her problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net] > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 11:24 AM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels > > > Aren't the messages on this list archived? > > Don't believe anyone said speakup was built into the kernel as in the > kernel you get from ftp.kernel.org. Don't believe anyone said that. > > What we did say is that the most common distributions in use on this list, > Redhat, Slackware, and Debian, have been tweaked, by folks on this list, > in order to include speakup. So, if you get your stuff from there, you'll > get kernels that include speakup. If you get your stuff elsewhere, you > won't (necessarily). > > Now, once again, don't misunderstand. You cannot expect speakup if you > download your distribution from redhat.com, or debian.org, or slackware > dot whatever. You have to download from linux-speakup.org or > speakup.octothorp.org. > > Can this be any clearer? > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > > Ok, I'm a bit confused, and I appologize for not having followed this > > thread better but I thought I knew what to do. I downloaded the 2.4.5 > > kernel and started working on it. I tried to use my .checkout file to > > patch from the speakup cvs but was told there was no speakup module--I > > thought this was still available so hadn't really worried about this > > discussion. Is speakup already built into the kernels or do I have to > > have a specially-enabled kernel? If this is in the kernel, with which > > version did this start? Is there a list somewhere of the synth commands > > to use with > > the append statement in lilo--I do remember that part of the discussion? > > I'm just upgrading my kernel from 2.2.19, not trying to install a new > > distribution. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but I don't see > > anything about this on the speakup site. I'm using debian and have just > > upgraded from potato to woody. > > > > Cheryl > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
