From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GhF6u-00019C-00 for ; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:46:40 -0500 Received: from db2.internal (db2.internal [10.202.2.12]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4882ADC0B0E for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:46:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by db2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:46:41 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: TfKnouyHDWf6hQVJYDQMxBWEF6O2HGYj+6xc8sdAtG1v 1162860401 Received: from cq.ftml.net (24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.197.112]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F5814309 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:46:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from chuckh by cq.ftml.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GhF6t-0005Eq-Gh for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:46:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:46:39 -0500 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Making grub beep in Debian Message-ID: <20061107004639.GA20023@cq.ftml.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:46:41 -0000 Thanks to Janina and the FC6 HOWTO-INSTALL for the inspiration for the following, although the details differ some: 1. Edit the file /etc/grub/grub.lst with an editor that allows you to use control characters as data. I use edbrowse, but ed will do nicely, or vi. 2. Look for lines containing the word "title" (lower case, no quotes) that are not commented out, i.e. have no hash mark in column 1. 3. Replace the first letter of the word that follows "title" with a control-g and that very letter. That is, place the control-g just ahead of the first letter of the word that follows "title". The word is "Debian". 4. Save your changes and exit. That's it. It works great. However, although I haven't checked this, you will probably loose the beep when you do an update-grub, and will then have to repeat this procedure. Theoretically you should do the above for every such line in the grub.lst file, but I doubt that you will be able to count the beeps, they will occur so rapidly. I only have one such line myself, so I have not checked that either. HTH Chuck -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (97% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh