help requested for speakup1.0

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Fri Oct 19 19:32:27 EDT 2001


I did just that today. I had a tarball of 2.4.9 so I applied the patches
to bring me up to 2.4.12, put speakup-1.00.tar.gz into its place under
/usr/src and did the install. All went with flying colors! I'm now running
a 2.4.12 kernel now.

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Tommy Moore wrote:

> Hi guys.
> Think djc's using the 2.4.3-12 kernel source tree that is on the Red Hat
> cd.
> This tree won't compile I don't believe with speakup in it.
> I suggest you go to:
> ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4
> And get the latest version from there that is linux-2.4.12.tar.gz or .bz2
> and use that to install speakup in and compile.
>
> Tommy
>
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, djc wrote:
>
> > I didn't do this work myself Shawn so it's harder for me to exactly answer
> > questions but It's kernel2.4.3. When he went to make it just failed and
> > claimed it couldn't find directories. He tried a few different things but
> > he couldn't get it to install at all. This RedHat is the one I got from
> > Bill's fine ftp site.
> >
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > On 10/20/01 at 1:26 AM Shaun Oliver wrote:
> >
> > >ok for starters, what exactly wouldn't it do? and what kernel vrelease are
> > >u using for this source?
> > >I'm currently using kernel 2.4.4 with a cvs version of speakup 1.00 and it
> > >compiled with no problems at all.
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >
> > >
> > >Shaun
> > >
> > >I never made a mistake in my life.
> > >I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
> > >                -- Lucy Van Pelt
> > >
> > >email: shauno at goanna.net.au
> > >icq: 76958435
> > >
> > >On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, djc wrote:
> > >
> > >> Last night we tried to install speakup1.0 and following the read me we
> > >> couldn't get it to install. I'm running RedHat7.1.  have the older
> > >speakup
> > >> running fine but I'd like to update it. We moved the tarball ok and we
> > >just
> > >> couldn't get it to find the directories it needed. My friend was
> > >assisting
> > >> me and he was using xwindows. I did download the speakup.tar.gz from the
> > >> speakup site. Is that the only file I need? I did see a speakup
> > >> configuration file but I didn't think I should have downloaded that one
> > >so
> > >> I didn't. I also would like to know if it's to my advantage to update
> > >> RedHat to 7.2. That is going to be an extremely long download and before
> > >I
> > >> do that I'd appreciate thoughts. My RedHat is running fine but I've
> > >always
> > >> felt that it's important to keep up to date with changes. Thanks for any
> > >> assistance.
> > >>
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