Major problem with Speakup.

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Fri Aug 17 13:39:23 EDT 2001


Hey, very nice cpu there.
Greg


On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:52:19AM -0400, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> Hi, Bill. Thanks for the info. However, I will give you some info about my
> system here.
> I've already updated from 2.4.2 to the 2.4.3.12 headers, kernels, devs, etc.
> That was no problem. I grabbed the Athlon because that is my processor type.
> To be specific a 1.2 GHZ Athlon Thunderbird.
> I'm sitting on a fast machine here, and well might as well get the best
> Linux can offer for it.
> I'll try this, and let you know if the updates work ok.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" <wacker at octothorp.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Major problem with Speakup.
> 
> 
> > I'm not sure what state your system is in.  If you already installed the
> > 2.4.3-12 RPMs from Red Hat, you can do.  rpm -Uv
> > kernel-2.4.3-12.athlon.rpm --force --ignorearch
> > Then run lilo by typing lilo at a shell prompt.  You should see something
> > like: "added linux*".  If you have the original 2.4.2-2 kernel, you should
> > also download the kernel-headers, kernel-doc, kernel-source, and devfsd
> > packages.  BTW, I hope you really have an athlon.  If not, download the
> > correct version of the kernel i386, i586, or i686.  Only the kernel itself
> > will have designations other than i386.  The dock, headers, and source
> > packages are labeled i386 only.  If you're upgrading from the 2.4.2-2
> > kernel, you'll need to edit /etc/lilo.conf in order to change the line
> that
> > says: image=vmlinuz-2.4.2-2.  It should now read image=vmlinuz-2.4.3-12.
> >
> >
> >
> >           HTH.
> >           Bill
> >
> >
> >
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