debian kernels and speakup

debian kernels and speakup

[Keith Barrett]

Hi,

I am using debian testing.

I have been using apt-get dist-upgrade from time to time and I note that 
kerbel 2.6.32-5 has been downloaded.

However, I also note that this has not become the default boot kernel.

So questions are, is this likely to be anything to do with speakup?

Looking at the config file, looks like speakup has not been enabled.

I am not wanting to loose speech at the moment so am being a bit careful 
but as I have some ongoing issues starting gnome, I am thinking I may 
need to have the newer kernel.

Any help or suggested reading appreciated.

uname lists the current kernel as 2.6.32-1.

Am I right in assuming that normally, the latest downloaded kernel would 
become the default?

Thanks

Keith

Re: debian kernels and speakup

[Kitty Litter]

If you are using grub then whenever you install a new kernel package 
update-grub runs and puts all kernel versions in /boot in grub.cfg with the 
highest version first. Your speakup modules usually would be loaded from 
/etc/modules so speakup should start no matter which kernel you boot from. 

Re: debian kernels and speakup

[Keith Barrett]

On 11/07/2010 16:08, Kitty Litter wrote:
> If you are using grub then whenever you install a new kernel package
> update-grub runs and puts all kernel versions in /boot in grub.cfg with
> the highest version first. Your speakup modules usually would be loaded
> from /etc/modules so speakup should start no matter which kernel you
> boot from.
Thanks for this, looks like something is broken as even manually running 
update-grub still keeps the old kernel although I can see the later ones 
in the list.

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