system with speakup software already installed?

[Kerry Hoath]

Then your boot loader is not booting the correct kernel.

If using grub check your /boot/grub/menu.lst

if using lilo; check your lilo.conf in /etc and also if using symbolic links
check that vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old are pointing at the kernels you expect 
them to point at.
Also note that uname works on the *running* kernel not what you might have 
installed.
My previous notes still apply; you need to build the kernel headers package 
with kernel-package;
and install it for the build symlink and headers to show.
Without the headers speakup won't build.

You also must have the right kernel booted for a Sane compile environment.
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 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?


>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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