Thanks. I'm goi8ng to do thanks. I'm going to do a reinstall this morning and I'll let you know how it goes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:48 AM Subject: Re: back again > Dan, > > That is a well known bug that came about because Shane patched the 2.6.8 > kernel with a transitory version of speakup, which of course was fixed > shortly after Shane did the patch. It's a killer. > > What I did when reinstalling is to begin with the 2.6 kernel on the > install CD, but as soon as possible upgrade to another precompiled > kernel with speakup built in, an extremely simple installation done with > a single command, "apt-get install <kernel-package-name>" There are > several to choose from depending on your architecture. They are all > 2.6.12.5, I believe. > > To do this, you first need to add this line to your > /etc/apt/sources.list file (avoiding the mark-cut-paste feature): > > deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./ > > and then issue these commands as root: > > apt-get update > > apt-cache search speakup kernel > > which will show you the available kernel packages with speakup built > in, from which you can make your choice. Next, do this: > > apt-get install <kernel-package-you-chose> > > and that's all there is to it. You might want to look at your lilo.conf > to make sure it was modified correctly, but the install process will > attempt to do that and will run lilo if you want it to. > > Once you have this new kernel installed, you are once again on safe > ground. > > Good luck. > > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (62% of Full) > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
