Speakup Installation Question

Speakup Installation Question

[Adam MacLeod]

Dear List:
I have an installation question regarding Speakup 2.0 in Fedora Core 6.
We have a laptop that already has FC6 installed on it, and no one in our group has kernel compilation experience. I've read that Speakup has become modular, so I am wondering, is there a way to run or install Speakup as a kernel module without having to download the modified CDs and doing a reinstall, or compiling a new kernel?
If this is possible, how would one go about doing such a thing?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards:
Adam MacLeod
adam@adamm.ca

RE: Speakup Installation Question

[Dawes, Stephen]

It is quite simple.
1. get, or create, a yum.repo file that points to the speakup modified
Fedora yum repository.
2. make sure that you allow for kernels to be updated in the new repo
file.
3. run yum update.
4. do a mkinitrd. (if you need the syntax, let me know.) 
5. restart the computer.

Good luck.
 



Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
 


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Re: Speakup Installation Question

[Chris Norman]

Or you could just get the speakup-modified kernel RPM from either 
speakupmodified.org or ftp.rednote.net. Alls you have to do with that is:
rpm kernel{tab}
or you might have to specify "--old" or something, can't remember, look at 
the man page for rpm, and search for "old".

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes@calgary.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: Speakup Installation Question


> It is quite simple.
> 1. get, or create, a yum.repo file that points to the speakup modified
> Fedora yum repository.
> 2. make sure that you allow for kernels to be updated in the new repo
> file.
> 3. run yum update.
> 4. do a mkinitrd. (if you need the syntax, let me know.)
> 5. restart the computer.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>
>
>
>
> NOTICE -
> This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity 
> named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally 
> privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person 
> responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended 
> recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying 
> of this communication or any of the information contained in it is 
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> please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this 
> communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of 
> Calgary thanks you for your attention and co-operation.
>
>
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Re: Speakup Installation Question

[Janina Sajka]

It can be even simpler ...

Dawes, Stephen writes:
> It is quite simple.
> 1. get, or create, a yum.repo file that points to the speakup modified
> Fedora yum repository.

Here's an easy way to do this. Become root on your computer and issue
the following command. You only have to do this once:

rpm -iv http://SpeakupModified.org/speakupmodified-release.rpm

This will install our repo files for you in /etc/yum.repos.d/, and it
will insure that the kernels you get in the future are Speakup enabled
kernels. It will also install our GPG key.

> 2. make sure that you allow for kernels to be updated in the new repo
> file.

We have this covered.

Janina

> 3. run yum update.
> 4. do a mkinitrd. (if you need the syntax, let me know.) 
> 5. restart the computer.
> 
> Good luck.
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>  
>  
> 
> 
> NOTICE -
> This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks you for your attention and co-operation.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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