system with speakup software already installed?

[Tyler Littlefield]

I have read. and I'm telling you... I have another kernel installed. It's 
falling back to 2.4 for some reason, though
tds:/home/tyler# dpkg -l|grep linux-image
ri  linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686          2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.4   Linux 
2.6.24 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-1-686                    2.6.26-11              Linux 
2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
ii  linux-image-686                             2.6.26+17              Linux 
image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4

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 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?


> 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
>>>>
>>
>
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