From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 24-105-209-113.cm.mhcable.com ([24.105.209.113] helo=cq) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Jp4EZ-0000sb-00 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:23:43 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by cq with local; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:23:42 -0400 id 00043DEE.4810B40E.0000300E Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:23:42 -0400 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: speakup on ppc? Message-ID: <20080424162342.GA12270@cq.ftml.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <007701c8a5b8$4a2540a0$0401000a@openwindows> <007c01c8a5ba$eadcfb30$0401000a@openwindows> <008301c8a5d0$6cbc75d0$0401000a@openwindows> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008301c8a5d0$6cbc75d0$0401000a@openwindows> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) 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: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:23:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cheryl, In my grub menu.lst, I search for lines starting with the word 'title' in the first column, then add a control G just before the capital D on that line, in the word 'Debian'. That makes a bell sound when the grub menu appears and when it changes. Chuck On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:59:55AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I have no problem with trying to work on a speakup-enabled ppc kernel. My > only problem is that my system boots with yaboot, which isn't accessible in > the sense that I can't tell when it loads. that's not ordinarily a big > problem; the problem is that if i have a regular kernel and an experimental > kernel that's speakup-enabled, I don't think I'm going to be able to tell > when grub loads so I can arrow down to the kernel I want. I could just keep > changing the default kernel in menu.lst but if I ever get stuck in a > non-loading kernel I might not be able to get back to the menu.lst file to > change the default back. If I can solve this problem, I might consider > working on a speakup kernel compile. > > > > > -- > > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, > there will your heart be also." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (84% of Full) My web site is: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net, my cell phone is: 1-518-334-9022. -------- I really hate this damned machine I wish that they would sell it. It never does quite what I want But only what I tell it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIELQO0maTgpPXM9cRAuj8AKCa+WUkAxZZJ0H4Tul/bDBXyJ7O6wCbBsBt ZliLwWk4nZrTwoPAFLfiRzo= =/VEE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----