system with speakup software already installed?

[Kerry Hoath]

Your kernel is too old.
You need kernel 2.6.26 or later.

Debian stable is too crusty, as is Ubuntu 8.04.1.


the build directory will show up once you install
apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r`

If this is a custom kernel then you need to build it with kernel_package not 
by hand.
make-kpgk --revision=guff.1 kernel_image kernel_headers
then install the 2 packages.

If doing the kernel by hand you need to fix the build symbolic link to point 
to your unpacked kernel source tree;
or at least the headers from same.
Regards, Kerry.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?


> hello,
> I'm only having one problem with this.
> I have the modules directory for /lib/modules/$(uname -r) but there are no 
> kernel headers, and the "build" directory doesn't exist.
> uname-r returns 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686
> how would I generate the "build" directory under /lib/modules/$(uname -r)?
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
> web: tysdomain-com
> Visit for quality software and web design.
> skype: st8amnd2005
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?
>
>
>> There is viubuntu; not sure if it has speakup or just gnome and orca.
>>
>> I have tried to summarize what I did here as all this seems to be in 
>> pieces scattered across the speakup archives.
>> I might try updating the install documents for speakup as they are 
>> wofully out of date.
>>
>> Corrections, shortcuts, better ways to integrate this with 
>> module-assistant or welcome.
>>
>> You want a distribution with 2.6.26 or later kernel, and the headers 
>> installed the below assumes Ubuntu Intrepid.
>> I got this working yesterday it was not difficult in a nutshell I did the 
>> following:
>>
>> This was an install to an eeepc 701 for anyone who cares.
>>
>> Got someone to install ubuntu 8.10 for me and checked the ssh server 
>> option off the server cd.
>>
>> finished up the install and rebooted off the flash disk in the eeepc.
>>
>> sudo su once logged in via ssh (or ssh in as root if you like)
>> apt-get install build-essential kernel-headers-`uname -r`
>>
>> apt-get install git git-core
>> apt-get install espeak libespeak-dev
>>
>> now test your audio setup because alsa needs to work properly before you 
>> mess with software speech.
>> There's no point configuring speakup and espeakup and espeak if the 
>> underlying frameworks are broken.
>> I installed an mp3 player,
>> apt-get install mpg321
>> and played an mp3 to insure mixer was correctly set.
>> espeak "testing speech this should work"
>>
>> If your box talks you're in good shape.
>>
>> cd /usr/src
>> git-clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup.git
>>
>> cd speakup/src
>> make modules
>> make modules_install
>>
>> cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/speakup
>> cp * ..
>> depmod -a
>>
>> not sure if that is necessary or not as the modules did not seem to be 
>> seen without moving them up a level.
>>
>> cd /usr/src/speakup/contrib
>> tar xjf espeakup-0.4.tar.bz2
>> cd espeakup-0.4
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> modprobe speakup_soft
>>
>> espeakupd
>>
>> now hit enter on your console and you should have speech.
>>
>>
>> any ways to script this into initrd images, fire this up on boot etc; I 
>> will flesh this out into a mini-howto.
>> Regards, Kerry.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:35 AM
>> Subject: system with speakup software already installed?
>>
>>
>>> Hello list,
>>> I'm looking for a system that already has speakup installed (I've never 
>>> had much luck with the software speech).
>>> I'm going to try to get it installed on my laptop though at some point 
>>> (really soon), and was wondering if there is a distro with speakup 
>>> already set up and installed for software speech.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tyler Littlefield
>>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>>> web: tysdomain-com
>>> Visit for quality software and web design.
>>> skype: st8amnd2005
>>>
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