From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net ([207.108.112.1]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16Jm2u-0004ka-00 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:42:52 -0500 Received: (qmail 21801 invoked by uid 50); 28 Dec 2001 01:42:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 21794 invoked by uid 0); 28 Dec 2001 01:42:55 -0000 Received: from tcsndslgw4poola158.tcsn.uswest.net (HELO lightstar) (63.227.85.158) by tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 01:42:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: New Installation of Speakup 1.00 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:44:23 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01122718442300.30603@lightstar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thursday December 27, 2001 10:26 am, you wrote: > OK. I think I didn't make myself very clear before. I did download and > unpack the 2.4.17 version of the Linux kernel. Do I need to compile and > boot with that kernel before I can patch it with the speakup installation? No, you don't. If it were any patch other than speakup, I'd say that it might be a good idea, just to make sure the base linux system for that version runs ok on your machine. However there is no technical reason why you have to have a particular kernel running in order to patch that kernel's source tree, and that goes for any patch, not just speakup.