From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.98.242.46]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BCE33F06 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 23:13:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-71-171-99-33.clppva.fios.verizon.net [71.171.99.33]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m4I3DFkG029798 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 22:13:17 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m4I3DCqM015640 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 23:13:15 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.0/8.13.7/Submit) id m4I3DBHt015637; Sat, 17 May 2008 23:13:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18479.40647.876059.249024@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 23:13:11 -0400 From: John covici To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Audible grup/lilo? In-Reply-To: <20080518021657.GA6521@clearwire.net> References: <20080518021657.GA6521@clearwire.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.95.1 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 03:13:18 -0000 Just to let you know, both grub and lilo will put stuff out the serial port, so if you have a hardware synth, you are in. on Saturday 05/17/2008 Gaijin(gaijin@clearwire.net) wrote > Hello all, > > Well, I've written William Pitcock, who appears in the > copyright notice to be lilo's maintainer at present, and asked to > discuss the possibility of modifying lilo to include audible signals for > the visually impared. Hopefully, something may come of it in future > lilo releases. I don't use grub, and don't even have the maintainer's > address, so I'll leave it up to you grub users. I've mentioned > increasing the frequency of beeps as you cursor down the menu, having a > unique beep for item #1, to the possibility of using morse code to read > out menu items to help the visually impared with the bootloader menus, > and am still waiting for a reply. I doubt it would be all that hard to > include an audible indicator feature in the boot menus that can be > toggled on in the .conf files. We may not get it to spell things out in > morse code, but maybe we won't have to hack and recompile something in > on later releases if they show an interest. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com