Need direction please

[Jeff Jacobson]

Hi Jacob,

I may have bumbled something in the terminology.

I'm running Debian Woody 3, however the Linux Kernel Version is 2.2.20.

I'm now in the process of trying to upgrade a fresh kernel install to
version 2.4.17, then 2.4.25, and then hopefully install speakup.

Thanks,
Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Schmude [mailto:jschmude at adelphia.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:00 AM
To: jeffjac2 at bluewater-publishing.com; Speakup is a screen review system
for Linux.
Subject: Re: Need direction please


Hi
	As others have already pointed out, you need to use CVS speakup to work
with 2.6 and it looks like you got that
to work. However, if you're still running debian 2.2, be aware that it is
most likely not kernel 2.6 ready--that is, it
doesn't have the recent versions of many utilities needed to run properly
with kernel 2.6. This means you're probably
going to encounter things that either don't work or work improperly. Isn't
debian 2.2 a bit old? If you want to use
debian, shouldn't you have installed debian 3.0?

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:30:55PM -0600, Jeff Jacobson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I.m new to the list. I.m trying to build a Linux system for a blind friend
> of mine. The system is:
>
> Dell Dimension TS500 . Pentium-3 @ 500 MHz
> external DecTalk express
>
> I currently have Debian 2.2.20 running on the machine, after many hours of
> fussing to get the new 80gb disk installed properly and Xfree86 / KDE
> running.
>
> Now I learn that Speakup needs kernel 2.4.25, or later. I downloaded the
> 2.6.6 kernel from www.kernel.org, thinking I may as well jump all the way
> if a kernel build is required.
>
> After downloading Speakup 1.5 and running the .checkout. program in
> accordance with the INSTALLATION document, I am not prompted to configure
> Speakup. I.m following the directions carefully, but having no luck.