From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from spaceymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227DA10BC2 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:38:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from tdsportable (unknown [168.103.85.95]) by spaceymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BAC194E50 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:38:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <104E07A0F9274947A67903FD7E5557AB@tdsportable> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <48AB1EB2712547DEA8D8ACB6A63E2934@tdsportable><3998ACB01DDE424786C8AE773383DE39@bouncy><0FDB65950B294FD698354C0666D74173@tdsportable> <7D0F6C55A3004A608DAB6B90D84C73A0@bouncy> Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:38:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:38:12 -0000 I have read. and I'm telling you... I have another kernel installed. It's falling back to 2.4 for some reason, though tds:/home/tyler# dpkg -l|grep linux-image ri linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.4 Linux 2.6.24 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/ ii linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 2.6.26-11 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/ ii linux-image-686 2.6.26+17 Linux image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 Thanks, Tyler Littlefield email: tyler@tysdomain.com web: tysdomain-com Visit for quality software and web design. skype: st8amnd2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:36 PM Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > Read and read carefully: 2.6.26 or later. > 2.6 patch level 26 > patch level 26 or later. > > your kernel is 2.6.24; see the returned string from uname -r you give: > 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 > > this kernel is 2 patch levels too old. > > > kernels which will not work: 2.6.25, 2.6.24 2.6.23 and earlier. > > You can put speakup into an earlier source tree but you'll need to patch > it and this is not covered here. > > You'd need to upgrade to testing or unstable to get a newer kernel. > > Regards, Kerry. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tyler Littlefield" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:29 AM > Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > > >> I've got 2.6 kernel, there are two installed. etch is falling back to 2.4 >> for some stupid reason. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Tyler Littlefield >> email: tyler@tysdomain.com >> web: tysdomain-com >> Visit for quality software and web design. >> skype: st8amnd2005 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kerry Hoath" >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> >> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:27 PM >> Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? >> >> >>> Your kernel is too old. >>> You need kernel 2.6.26 or later. >>> >>> Debian stable is too crusty, as is Ubuntu 8.04.1. >>> >>> >>> the build directory will show up once you install >>> apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` >>> >>> If this is a custom kernel then you need to build it with kernel_package >>> not by hand. >>> make-kpgk --revision=guff.1 kernel_image kernel_headers >>> then install the 2 packages. >>> >>> If doing the kernel by hand you need to fix the build symbolic link to >>> point to your unpacked kernel source tree; >>> or at least the headers from same. >>> Regards, Kerry. >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Tyler Littlefield" >>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >>> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:11 AM >>> Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? >>> >>> >>>> hello, >>>> I'm only having one problem with this. >>>> I have the modules directory for /lib/modules/$(uname -r) but there are >>>> no kernel headers, and the "build" directory doesn't exist. >>>> uname-r returns 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 >>>> how would I generate the "build" directory under >>>> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Tyler Littlefield >>>> email: tyler@tysdomain.com >>>> web: tysdomain-com >>>> Visit for quality software and web design. >>>> skype: st8amnd2005 >>>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup