From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1F8UdC-00013I-00 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:44:06 -0500 Received: (qmail 6513 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2006 20:42:39 -0700 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:42:39 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: 2.6 Debian speakup install cd? Message-ID: <20060213034239.GA6498@localhost.localdomain> References: <904BC1BC-669F-420C-91C9-97F1A7191DDA@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <904BC1BC-669F-420C-91C9-97F1A7191DDA@gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 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: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:44:06 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The netinst iso available from people.debian.org/~shane/ does have a speakup-enabled 2.6.8 kernel, which you can get by using the speakup26 target (I.E. speakup26 speakup_synth=xxx). You'll want to update that kernel image as soon as you can though, since the cvs version of speakup in that kernel has a broken cut/paste, which crashes the machine if used, at least on the 32-bit systems. Greg On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:28:41PM -0700, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi All > > I've got an AMD64 system I'd like to install Debian on. > Unfortunately, te speakup install cd, while containing a 2.6 kernel, > seems to only have a speakup-enabled 2.4 kernel. My motherboard has > an nVidia NForce3 250gb chipset on it, most of which is not supported > by the 2.4 series kernel included in Debian. In particular, I'm > lacking support for my nVidia SATA chip as well as my IDE controller-- > also nVidia, both of which are rather important. I assumed the ide- > generic would take care of my IDE support for the cd drive, but it > doesn't. > Does anyone have a speakup-enabled debian 2.6 install cd? Or failing > that, are any 2.6-based distributions aside from Fedora Core 3 and > Gentoo speakup-enabled? I don't think I'm going to reinstall Gentoo > here, as it broke itself completely when I did a world update, > resulting in my need to reinstall linux here--the world update broke > portage, which broke the service init scripts, and I can't even get > portage to run in order to fix it. > > thx > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD8AAv7s9z/XlyUyARAjLhAJ0RDDYYff0bDPO4guGkBgxn/5TtAgCeLDPH qf76QznI81QhRaNl8ZtFQr8= =Zyrm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----