Last I checked, you can install kernel-tree and that will install kernel-source, but installing kernel-source packages will not install kernel-tree. What is kernel-tree used for? I've made kernels without it while using kernel-source. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 7:03 PM Subject: Re: a Debian Question > Hi. > > I have a 2.6.11.7 kernel running with speakup. I decided to use the > kernel.org sources instead of the Debian source. Make-kpkg worked fine > for building it. > There is a Sid kernel-source-2.6.11 available, but I haven't tried to > patch it with speakup or build it. > > It sounds like the make-kpkg script is looking for some files it expects > and isn't finding them. Unfortunately, I don't know what files might be > missing. > You might want to check and see if the kernel-tree package got > installed. It should have been installed with the kernel-source, but > you never know. > > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:20:44PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I hope you will forgive a Debian-specific question here. However, I'd like > > to ask a few things about Debian kernels. First, it looks to me as though > > 2.6.10 is the most current. If I were to try and use it for Speak-up, is > > it really the most recent, and stable? If there are more recent SID > > kernels that people have working with Speak-up, please let me know where to > > find them. > > > > I've gotten 2.6.10, to practice on if nothing else, and when I issue the > > command > > > > make-kpkg clean > > > > from usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10 I get a message saying "We do not seem to > > be in a top-level kernel source directory tree". Does anybody know what > > this message means? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Chris > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Chris Gray > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
