Installing Speakup on FC5

Installing Speakup on FC5

[Darragh]

Hello,

I want to install Speakup on FC5.  
I
've downloaded the kernel header using yum but I haven't been able to find
the kernel sources with the yum utils using the command yumdownloader
--source kernel.  I did find a version of the kernel one one of the FC
servers though and as long as Yum hasn't updated it during the last seven
days it is the same as the one on my system.  

My question is: how do I do something like a cloneconfig to copy the
configuration of the installed kernel so I can use it on the source.  Then,
the second question is, has anyone else any suggestions for installing
Speakup on FC5?

Thanks


Darragh

Re: Installing Speakup on FC5

[Janina Sajka]

Speakup Modified kernels for FC5 are available at:

ftp://SpeakupModified.org/fedora/speakupmodified/current/RPMS/


Note that this is a new address for the Speakup Modified Fedora
Distribution. The site is still under construction.

Darragh writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to install Speakup on FC5.  
> I
> 've downloaded the kernel header using yum but I haven't been able to find
> the kernel sources with the yum utils using the command yumdownloader
> --source kernel.  I did find a version of the kernel one one of the FC
> servers though and as long as Yum hasn't updated it during the last seven
> days it is the same as the one on my system.  
> 
> My question is: how do I do something like a cloneconfig to copy the
> configuration of the installed kernel so I can use it on the source.  Then,
> the second question is, has anyone else any suggestions for installing
> Speakup on FC5?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Darragh
> 
> 
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Installing Speakup on Fc5

[Scott Berry]

Hello there,

Can an older kernel such as the compiled kernels be installed on Fc5 for speech purposes?  Also I see that once the kernel is downloaded you can do "rpm -ivh kernel*.rmp" for making the kernel get written in to Grubb.  Is this true and does it write the "initrd.img" and "initrd?"?  thanks for the help.

Scott

Re: Installing Speakup on Fc5

[Janina Sajka]

Not sure why you particularly want to run an older kernel? Best answer I
could give specifically to running an older kernel is "Maybe." If you
have the need, try it. You have nothing to lose.

Please note that up to date kernels which include Speakup are available
at:

ftp://speakupmodified.org/fedora/speakupmodified/5/RPMS/


Please note that these rpm packages install a default initrd.img file.
You will probably want to create your own in order to better support
your particular speech synthesizer using the mkinitrd command. Follow
the instructions in the old Installation HOWTO.

Scott Berry writes:
> Hello there,
> 
> Can an older kernel such as the compiled kernels be installed on Fc5 for speech purposes?  Also I see that once the kernel is downloaded you can do "rpm -ivh kernel*.rmp" for making the kernel get written in to Grubb.  Is this true and does it write the "initrd.img" and "initrd?"?  thanks for the help.
> 
> Scott
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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