I've got 2.6 kernel, there are two installed. etch is falling back to 2.4 for some stupid reason. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: tyler at tysdomain.com web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:27 PM Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > Your kernel is too old. > You need kernel 2.6.26 or later. > > Debian stable is too crusty, as is Ubuntu 8.04.1. > > > the build directory will show up once you install > apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` > > If this is a custom kernel then you need to build it with kernel_package > not by hand. > make-kpgk --revision=guff.1 kernel_image kernel_headers > then install the 2 packages. > > If doing the kernel by hand you need to fix the build symbolic link to > point to your unpacked kernel source tree; > or at least the headers from same. > Regards, Kerry. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:11 AM > Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > > >> hello, >> I'm only having one problem with this. >> I have the modules directory for /lib/modules/$(uname -r) but there are >> no kernel headers, and the "build" directory doesn't exist. >> uname-r returns 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 >> how would I generate the "build" directory under >> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)? >> >> Thanks, >> Tyler Littlefield >> email: tyler at tysdomain.com >> web: tysdomain-com >> Visit for quality software and web design. >> skype: st8amnd2005 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 6:07 PM >> Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? >> >> >>> There is viubuntu; not sure if it has speakup or just gnome and orca. >>> >>> I have tried to summarize what I did here as all this seems to be in >>> pieces scattered across the speakup archives. >>> I might try updating the install documents for speakup as they are >>> wofully out of date. >>> >>> Corrections, shortcuts, better ways to integrate this with >>> module-assistant or welcome. >>> >>> You want a distribution with 2.6.26 or later kernel, and the headers >>> installed the below assumes Ubuntu Intrepid. >>> I got this working yesterday it was not difficult in a nutshell I did >>> the following: >>> >>> This was an install to an eeepc 701 for anyone who cares. >>> >>> Got someone to install ubuntu 8.10 for me and checked the ssh server >>> option off the server cd. >>> >>> finished up the install and rebooted off the flash disk in the eeepc. >>> >>> sudo su once logged in via ssh (or ssh in as root if you like) >>> apt-get install build-essential kernel-headers-`uname -r` >>> >>> apt-get install git git-core >>> apt-get install espeak libespeak-dev >>> >>> now test your audio setup because alsa needs to work properly before you >>> mess with software speech. >>> There's no point configuring speakup and espeakup and espeak if the >>> underlying frameworks are broken. >>> I installed an mp3 player, >>> apt-get install mpg321 >>> and played an mp3 to insure mixer was correctly set. >>> espeak "testing speech this should work" >>> >>> If your box talks you're in good shape. >>> >>> cd /usr/src >>> git-clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup.git >>> >>> cd speakup/src >>> make modules >>> make modules_install >>> >>> cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/speakup >>> cp * .. >>> depmod -a >>> >>> not sure if that is necessary or not as the modules did not seem to be >>> seen without moving them up a level. >>> >>> cd /usr/src/speakup/contrib >>> tar xjf espeakup-0.4.tar.bz2 >>> cd espeakup-0.4 >>> make >>> make install >>> >>> modprobe speakup_soft >>> >>> espeakupd >>> >>> now hit enter on your console and you should have speech. >>> >>> >>> any ways to script this into initrd images, fire this up on boot etc; I >>> will flesh this out into a mini-howto. >>> Regards, Kerry. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com> >>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:35 AM >>> Subject: system with speakup software already installed? >>> >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> I'm looking for a system that already has speakup installed (I've never >>>> had much luck with the software speech). >>>> I'm going to try to get it installed on my laptop though at some point >>>> (really soon), and was wondering if there is a distro with speakup >>>> already set up and installed for software speech. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Tyler Littlefield >>>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com >>>> web: tysdomain-com >>>> Visit for quality software and web design. >>>> skype: st8amnd2005 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
