Well, somethines I find the depmod the installation uses doesn't cover the exact correct kernel version which gets straightened out by doing a depmod -a after it is installed. I don't know for sure that it will help but you might want to give that a try. Kirk On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Hussain Kaddhem wrote: > Hello. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell XPS m420 machine. Recently > after some updates, speakup stopped working. When I try to add it > using modprobe, I got a message along the lines of "Fatal: error > inserting speakup_soft > /lib/modules/2.6.35-25-generic/updates/dkms/speakup_soft.co: invalid > module format". I ran modinfo for speakup_soft, and here's what I got: > > filename: /lib/modules/2.6.35-25-generic/updates/dkms/speakup_soft.ko > version: 2.6 > license: GPL > description: Speakup userspace software synthesizer support > author: Kirk Reiser <kirk at braille.uwo.ca> > srcversion: 7B68183C049F135DCDCA2AC > depends: speakup > vermagic: 2.6.35-24-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 686 > parm: start:Start the synthesizer once it is loaded. (short) > > So apparently the module was being built against the wrong kernel > version. I purged the module using module assistant, then removed the > speakup-source package with aptitude. Reinstalled the package (again > with aptitude), reinstalled the module with module-assistant, same > problem. I figured that maybe the Ubuntu Repository was a bit out of > date. So I removed the module/package again. This time I downloaded > the tarball from the speakup website. I built it against the default > kernel (with make/make modules_install), same problem. Thinking that > maybe the default kernel wasn't the one I was using for some reason, I > built it again with the 2.6.35-25-generic kernel supplied in the > KERNELDIR with make. Same problem. Can anyone provide any help? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
