Kernels in Debian

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi,

Tony's summary was extremely helpful. I just followed his steps, and
found that the resulting speakup modules ended up where they belong,
under extras/speakup, no need to move them there. The latest
combination of speakup, espeak, and espeakup, work much better than
with the debian package for the speakup modules in the lenny archives.

Chuck


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:59:06AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Thanks Tony for that good summary of steps.  I also looked around in
> the /usr/share/doc/kernel-package (I believe it's called) and there
> was a good write-up there too.  Your steps confirmed my observation
> about where to put the speakup/*.ko modules.  I found out the hard way
> I had to mv them down to the speakup directory.  I would have thought
> the 'make modules_install' would have done this directly.
> 
> I'll have to read up on modules-assistent.  I didn't do anything in
> that area yesterday and speakup is working for me.  I did install the
> kernel headers; I'll have to take stock of the kernel stuff I did
> install but I had not untarred the source tree yet.  I'm currently
> satisfied with using modules right now.  I may eventually go with a
> strait kernel with one speakup module included and bypass initrd
> completely.  Personally, I wonder about the usefullness of a initrd on
> a large desktop of my own.  I suppose those are good for smaller
> systems where decisions have to be made as to which modules to
> include.
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