Hi, I'm sure you got many good responses on this, but this is what I do because it's far quicker and easier for me. I run the following commands: aptitude -q install module-assistant m-a prepare Then, cd to the Speakup git pull and the src directory. For me, this is usually /usr/local/src/speakup/src or /home/tony/speakup/src. Then run: make modules_install The m-a prepare command will download and set up the necessary kernel tree structure. This will be a fairly big download, but will include all the Debian security patches that you won't necessarily get in the vanilla kernel.org source tree. That builds as modules. If you don't want modules, see below. After the modules are built, do: cd /lib/modules/`uname -r` I think cd extra, but it could be kernel/extra You'll have a speakup directory and the speakup modules in the current dir. Just mv *.ko speakup to fix this: mv speakup* speakup This is important! Run this to make sure your system boots with speech: depmod As I said, that's if you want modules. If you want it built into your kernel, do this: aptitude -q install kernel-package You'll also need to install a Debian kernel source package, such as linux-source-2.6.26 or similar. Again, m-a prepare from the above commands should do this for you. Change to the kernel source tree, usually /usr/src tar -jxf *.bz2 Change to the Speakup git pull, such as ~/speakup Run the patch script, telling it the source is in /usr/src/linux. You'll probably need to make a symlink from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.26. It should patch without errors. If you get errors, post a log on this list. After it patches, read the man page and help for the "make-kpkg" command. Run make-kpkg with the parameters and build options you want, such as if you want a custom version number. It should do all the build and compile steps for you, including "make config." You probably want to copy /boot/*config* to /usr/src/linux so you don't have to answer hundreds of config questions while still getting the Debian default options. Eventually, it will ask the Speakup questions. I build the dectlk driver into the kernel, the rest as modules. After that, come back in a couple hours and you'll have a bunch of .deb packages in /usr/src/linux. From there, just do: dpkg -i /usr/src/linux/*speakup*.deb or whatever you choose to call your kernel version. You could also just do: dpkg -i /usr/src/linux/linux-image*deb Then, run lilo as always and reboot. It will run update-initramfs and lilo for you, but I always run lilo again by hand just to make sure it works. Speakup should come up talking on the next reboot. If not, go back to the old kernel and try again or ssh in and look at dmesg. Steve Holmes wrote: > Hey, just curious. When updating to latest git-pull of speakup, do > most Deb users go with Debian's kernel source or do they use the > generic one from ftp.kernel.org? I'm about to update my copy of > speakup and even with 2.6.26, the install script in speakup appears to > need a kernel source tree. Is my observation correct here? >
