I have read. and I'm telling you... I have another kernel installed. It's falling back to 2.4 for some reason, though tds:/home/tyler# dpkg -l|grep linux-image ri linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.4 Linux 2.6.24 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/ ii linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 2.6.26-11 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/ ii linux-image-686 2.6.26+17 Linux image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 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 7:36 PM Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > Read and read carefully: 2.6.26 or later. > 2.6 patch level 26 > patch level 26 or later. > > your kernel is 2.6.24; see the returned string from uname -r you give: > 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 > > this kernel is 2 patch levels too old. > > > kernels which will not work: 2.6.25, 2.6.24 2.6.23 and earlier. > > You can put speakup into an earlier source tree but you'll need to patch > it and this is not covered here. > > You'd need to upgrade to testing or unstable to get a newer kernel. > > 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 11:29 AM > Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > > >> 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 at gotss.net> >> 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 >>>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
