2.6 Debian speakup install cd?

2.6 Debian speakup install cd?

[Jacob Schmude]

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

Re: 2.6 Debian speakup install cd?

[Gregory Nowak]

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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

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Re: 2.6 Debian speakup install cd?

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Thanks, that's exactly what I was after.


On Feb 12, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:

>
> 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).