Then either wait for the release of lenny or upgrade to testing. Building kernels with kernel-package is not difficult and the kernel package documents cover the procedure rather well. Speakup will make it into distributions as out of kernel modules and so on; so either try viubuntu (not sure if it has speakup) or be patient. Regards, Kerry. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:57 AM Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? >I have the headers for the newest kernel installed... I'm stuck relying on >debian to produce packages for me to upgrade as I'm not able to compile my >own kernels... not the way I want, anyway, so I don't see much purpose in >compiling a huge bloated kernel that has things in it that aren't needed. > > > > 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 7:48 PM > Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > > >> Then your boot loader is not booting the correct kernel. >> >> If using grub check your /boot/grub/menu.lst >> >> if using lilo; check your lilo.conf in /etc and also if using symbolic >> links >> check that vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old are pointing at the kernels you expect >> them to point at. >> Also note that uname works on the *running* kernel not what you might >> have installed. >> My previous notes still apply; you need to build the kernel headers >> package with kernel-package; >> and install it for the build symlink and headers to show. >> Without the headers speakup won't build. >> >> You also must have the right kernel booted for a Sane compile >> environment. >> 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 11:38 AM >> Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? >> >> >>>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 at gotss.net> >>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >
