installing speakup
Geoff Shang
Geoff at quitelikely.com
Mon Nov 12 21:38:25 UTC 2007
Daniel Dalton wrote:
> 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?
I think Debian kernel packages are meant to take care of that for you. But
it probably doesn't hurt to check your bootloader's file
(/boot/grub/menu.lst if using Grub) just to be sure.
>> http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernell/.
>
> The link didn't work for me?
The full stop at the end of the sentence probably messed it up. Try it
without it.
http://people.debian.org/~shane/speakup/kernel/
Works for me.
> Or could I just download it to my system and install it manually?
> If so how?
Yes, you can do that.
dpkg --install linux-image-2.6.18-4-speakup-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12.1_i386.deb
Good luck,
Geoff.
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