From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (3719 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 03:32:40 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA29201 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:32:38 +1000 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex33.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.133]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA05549 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:32:36 +1000 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 12cERk-0000f3-00; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 07:31:45 +1000 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 07:31:44 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang X-Sender: geoff@data.home To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: another newbie In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi Ron: Questions are good. Then we know what to tell you. Lets tackle the kernel first. You will want a kernel source from kernel.org or somesuch place that looks something like linux-2.2.14.tar.gz. Don't get the 2.3 tree unless you're particularly adventurous ... oh and if you don't want speakup to work . Kernels prior to 2.2.7 won't work with speakup either so unless 2.2.15 has come out by the time you go to get it, it's best to get 2.2.14. If you know how to use bzip2 and have it installed, then you can get the bz2 file, otherwise get the tar.gz file. It will be aproximately 14 meg. Untar it into your /usr/src directory, such that it creates a /usr/src/linux directory. You will also need to grab speakup-0.08.tar.gz from ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/linux/speakup so that you can patch it into your kernel. For reading matter, take a look at the README in the kernel source. Also take a poke around in the Documentation subdirectory, and if your super-caucious like I was, you can even read the entire configure.help file there too which lists all the help text for the kernel configuration procedure. It's a good read if you don't know what you must have. There is also a kernel howto on the linux documentation project (www.linuxdoc.org) which you might also want to read. Also check out the hardware howto plus any others that pertain to your hardware. Untar the speakup patch into /usr/src which will make a speakup-0.08 directory. Then issue the command (from /usr/src): patch -p0