Installing Speakup on FC4

[Dawes, Stephen]

Try writing Bill Acker, 
wacker at octothorp.org 
Bill is the Fedora guru and he may already have a speakup modified
kernel for the 64-bit system.



Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
 
 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Liz Hare
> Sent: 2005 August 23 5:03 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Installing Speakup on FC4
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I'm having to install speakup on FC4 myself rather than use a 
> speakup-modified distribution because I have a 64 bit setup.
> 
> I am having trouble getting the install script to work 
> following the directions in the installation file.
> 
> Redhat has some different conventions when it comes to 
> locations for source code and stuff.  I've followed the 
> directions, making a symlink /usr/src/linux, but the install 
> program isn't finding what it needs.  I've tried pointing the 
> symlink to different levels of the tree with no luck.
> 
> Also, the install program reports that it can't find a 
> Makefile it  needs and I have no idea where it's supposed to be!
> 
> Is there anywhere I can read about where all this stuff goes 
> and how to get it to work?
> I'm having to borrow eyeballs to work on this and it's 
> frustrating and would be nice to get it fixed soon so I can 
> solve all the other problems I'm having like getting the 
> network card working, etc.!
> 
> Liz
> 
> 
> 
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