back again

[Dan Murphy]

Thanks.  I'm goi8ng to do thanks.  I'm going to do a reinstall this
morning and I'll let you know how it goes.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: back again


> Dan,
>
> That is a well known bug that came about because Shane patched the 2.6.8
> kernel with a transitory version of speakup, which of course was fixed
> shortly after Shane did the patch. It's a killer.
>
> What I did when reinstalling is to begin with the 2.6 kernel on the
> install CD, but as soon as possible upgrade to another precompiled
> kernel with speakup built in, an extremely simple installation done with
> a single command, "apt-get install <kernel-package-name>" There are
> several to choose from depending on your architecture. They are all
> 2.6.12.5, I believe.
>
> To do this, you first need to add this line to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file (avoiding the mark-cut-paste feature):
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./
>
> and then issue these commands as root:
>
> apt-get update
>
> apt-cache search speakup kernel
>
> which will show you the available kernel packages with speakup built
> in, from which  you can make your choice. Next, do this:
>
> apt-get install <kernel-package-you-chose>
>
> and that's all there is to it. You might want to look at your lilo.conf
> to make sure it was modified correctly, but the install process will
> attempt to do that and will run lilo if you want it to.
>
> Once you have this new kernel installed, you are once again on safe
> ground.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
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