From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay0-omc2-s34.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.170]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I31Oj-0005ib-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:07:21 -0400 Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.152.23]) by bay0-omc2-s34.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:06:50 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:06:50 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 71.111.96.206 by BAY141-DAV13.phx.gbl with DAV; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:06:46 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [71.111.96.206] X-Originating-Email: [z_kline@hotmail.com] X-Sender: z_kline@hotmail.com From: "Zachary Kline" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <003301c7b7a5$d87cc190$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: Slackware: kernel confusion Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:06:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jun 2007 03:06:50.0227 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A34E430:01C7B79F] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:07:21 -0000 Hiya, I'm not aware of NPTL or anything like that. So I'm going to assume I don't need the headers package, nor the modules for that matter since I'll be custom compiling anyway. Is this accurate? Thanks, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Slackware: kernel confusion > Zach, > > Slackware 11 does have 2.6.17 kernel, the source, headers, module > and kernel are available here: > > http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/slackware/slackware-11.0/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/ > > Please note the warning about headers > http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/slackware/slackware-11.0/extra/linux-2.6.17.13/kernel-headers.WARNING > > This kernel is not a speakup kernel, but it's easy to patch it for > speakup. If you want the 2.6.x kernel headers, then grab them > from the above, you could get the source for 2.6.21 instead > from kernel.org and patch that for speakup. Follow the > speakup install instructions, they are not difficult. > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >