Installing speakup on Ubuntu 7.10

[Daniel Dalton]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Darragh wrote:
>> Has any one manually installed speakup in to the Ubuntu 2.6.22.9 kernel?
>> Any suggestions or tips?
>>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is probably a waste of time, but what if you try the 2.6.23 kernel
> image from grml?  I only suggest it because it has Speakup built-in.  I
> have no idea if it would work or not but I would be interested in
> finding out.  I'm not running Ubuntu.  Look at http://deb.grml.org/ and
> look in the linux-image-* directories.  You could also add the grml
> repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.  Of course if you don't have
> speech, none of this probably does any good.  I have no idea how Ubuntu
> kernels differ from Debian or how grml differs from either.

Perhaps just patches.

Then might as well try my 2.6.23 kernel.
Tell me if you want it its a .deb and I'll upload it somewhere...
Its about 18 mb and to install you would just do:
sudo dpkg -i linux-image2.6*.deb
(Can't remember the rest of the file name.)

And that does grub too!


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