Speakup-enabled kernels

[Janina Sajka]

Ah, yes. Excuse me for getting it wrong. Just trying to move too fast
today, I guess.

One possible reason, and there are certainly several possibilities, is the
directory name after extracting the tarball. It needs to be linux, or it
needs a symlink named linux. I don't recall now whether that is the
default.
 On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:

> I think her problem was she downloaded a fresh 2.4.5 kernel and tried
> applying a CVS patch to it and could not find the modules.  She wasn't clear
> on what steps she took but this is my interpretation of her problem.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 11:24 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Speakup-enabled kernels
>
>
> Aren't the messages on this list archived?
>
> Don't believe anyone said speakup was built into the kernel as in the
> kernel you get from ftp.kernel.org. Don't believe anyone said that.
>
> What we did say is that the most common distributions in use on this list,
> Redhat, Slackware, and Debian, have been tweaked, by folks on this list,
> in order to include speakup. So, if you get your stuff from there, you'll
> get kernels that include speakup. If you get your stuff elsewhere, you
> won't (necessarily).
>
> Now, once again, don't misunderstand. You cannot expect speakup if you
> download your distribution from redhat.com, or debian.org, or slackware
> dot whatever. You have to download from linux-speakup.org or
> speakup.octothorp.org.
>
> Can this be any clearer?
>  On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> > Ok, I'm a bit confused, and I appologize for not having followed this
> > thread better but I thought I knew what to do.  I downloaded the 2.4.5
> > kernel and started working on it.  I tried to use my .checkout file to
> > patch from the speakup cvs but was told there was no speakup module--I
> > thought this was still available so hadn't really worried about this
> > discussion.  Is speakup already built into the kernels or do I have to
> > have a specially-enabled kernel?  If this is in the kernel, with which
> > version did this start?  Is there a list somewhere of the synth commands
> > to use with
> > the append statement in lilo--I do remember that part of the discussion?
> > I'm just upgrading my kernel from 2.2.19, not trying to install a new
> > distribution.    Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but I don't see
> > anything about this on the speakup site.  I'm using debian and have just
> > upgraded from potato to woody.
> >
> >                               Cheryl
> >
> >
> >
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