New user encountering problems

[Brent Harding]

If one were to do this, how would you get speakup loaded?
At 03:59 PM 9/23/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I always suggest to take RedHat kernel as it is and just load modules.
>Best,
>Vic
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at ufw2.com>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:55 PM
>Subject: Re: New user encountering problems
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>> I've liked debian for awhile, but tons of stuff won't compile, because the
>> locations of files are a little screwy. Why put stuff in non standard
>> places I don't know. How does one configure a redhat kernel when compiling
>> anyways? I'm thinking about using it some time, suppose I need the 3c59x
>> driver support for networking, can I config it like a normal kernel or
>does
>> redhat have tools to make this easier?
>> At 11:24 PM 9/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Hi
>> > It is possible to build a speakup kernel from the Red Hat source
>> >RPM. Just skip the patches that can't find their files, they don't apply
>> >to the i386.
>> > However, the kernel will build, but unless you use a rh supplied
>> >config, your modules will have unresolved symbols all over the place. I
>> >don't think speakup agrees with some of the patches RH applied to their
>> >kernel rpm, for it is not a clean source. They've applied all sorts of
>> >stuff that are beta, or even alpha. Not wise, I believe they do it to try
>> >to get their distro to support more hardware.
>> > Personally, I think slackware is the best, closely followed by
>> >debian.
>> >
>> >On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kirk Wood wrote:
>> >
>> >> I believe this is a kernel problem. Once the kernel starts expanding
>(you
>> >> get the loading and the dots, then the kernel quickly takes over. My
>guess
>> >> is that you used the kernell source provided by RedHat. If you did,
>then
>> >> you should download the kernel (possibly from kernel.org) and apply the
>> >> patch compile, etc.) RedHat doesn't provide the complete kernel and as
>a
>> >> result the built images don't work correct. Sorry I can't give you more
>> >> complete details. Just that it is common to discover you can't build a
>> >> working kernel with speakup from the RedHat source package.
>> >>
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