system with speakup software already installed?

[Kerry Hoath]

Read and read carefully: 2.6.26 or later.
2.6 patch level 26
patch level 26 or later.

your kernel is 2.6.24; see the returned string from uname -r you give:
2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686

this kernel is 2 patch levels too old.


kernels which will not work: 2.6.25, 2.6.24 2.6.23 and earlier.

You can put speakup into an earlier source tree but you'll need to patch it 
and this is not covered here.

You'd need to upgrade to testing or unstable to get a newer kernel.

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 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?


> 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
>>>
>