system with speakup software already installed?

[Tyler Littlefield]

I have the headers for the newest kernel installed... I'm stuck relying on 
debian to produce packages for me to upgrade as I'm not able to compile my 
own kernels... not the way I want, anyway, so I don't see much purpose in 
compiling a huge bloated kernel that has things in it that aren't needed.



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 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed?


> 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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