installing speakup

John Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Tue Nov 13 14:40:53 UTC 2007


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Dalton" <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: installing speakup


> On 13/11/2007 3:38 AM, John Heim wrote:
>> Do you require a custom kernel? It would be easier to download a kernel 
>> with speakup already compiled in. You can do that by going to
>
> OK. So I just get the kernel install it with apt and reboot? No messing 
> with bootloaders is required?
>
>> http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernell/.
>
> The link didn't work for me?
>
>>
>> If you are using debian linux, you can do this:
>
> I am on debian. etch. So will the following instructions still work for 
> me?
> Also my kernel is version
> 2.6.18-5
>
>>
>> 1. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
>>
>> deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./
>
> Hmmm I get an error with apt-get update. Can you in close the line in 
> quotation marks?


"deb http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel ./"





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