From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0); 1 Aug 1996 19:17:46 -0000 MBOX-Line: From aedil@ny.fnx.com Thu Aug 1 21:07:30 1996 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 504); 1 Aug 1996 18:44:20 -0000 Received: (qmail-queue invoked from smtpd); 1 Aug 1996 17:46:05 -0000 Received: from melgor.ny.fnx.com (165.254.149.3) by goldfish.cube.net with SMTP; 1 Aug 1996 17:45:58 -0000 Received: (from aedil@localhost) by melgor.ny.fnx.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03998; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:40:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608011740.NAA03998@melgor.ny.fnx.com> Subject: Re: Beeping LILO (Was: Re: Booting Linux) To: raman@adobe.com Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:40:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kris Van Hees" Cc: blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net, kjahds@khjads.com In-Reply-To: <199608011716.KAA03506@labrador.mv.us.adobe.com> from "T. V. Raman" at Aug 1, 96 10:16:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text List-Id: ********************************************************** Moderators note: Dear "beep thread" contributors, since the beep thread seems to become the ignition spark of a nice new flame war, please bring this thread to an end. It is real unproductive and only eats bandwith. There should be more important issues to improve Linux blind support. If you want to discuss this beeping issue further, please use email. New mails concerning the "beeping" issue after this one will be forwarded to the CC: email adressess. Thank you for your understanding Hans With the following mail the "beeping" war will be finished :) ********************************************************** > Sometimes I get the feeling that people on this list are not taking time to > absorb the answers people have already given. It is not very useful on a discussion like this to complain about eachother on a frequent basis, but I have to diagree with the above, on two points: first of all it is quite impolite to suggest what other people do or not do. From the discussion so far it seems like quite proper attention is given to postings. Second, I believe that the idea to have multiple beeps at LILO to signal the 4 different phases in the startup is quite different from anything mentioned before (and it was not yet given before either). Having an indication of the phases can help in diagnosing a problem, though fixing it may be alot harder. The printing of LILO is steps was made to provide information to the sighted user, so why not provide the same information to a visually impaired user? The idea to put BELL character in a message file is a nice idea, but is not the same issue as LILO progress indication. Kris