system with speakup software already installed?

[Tyler Littlefield]

I've got 2.6 kernel, there are two installed. etch is falling back to 2.4 
for some stupid reason.


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 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?


> 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 wofully out of date.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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