From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from xen.quitelikely.com ([209.9.237.160] helo=quitelikely.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Jp67G-0003hV-00 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:24:18 -0400 Received: from carmickle.com (user-10bj5t2.cable.mindspring.com [64.185.151.162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by quitelikely.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6CE440197 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:24:10 -0400 From: Frank Carmickle To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: speakup on ppc? Message-ID: <20080424182410.GH17947@carmickle.com> References: <007701c8a5b8$4a2540a0$0401000a@openwindows> <007c01c8a5ba$eadcfb30$0401000a@openwindows> <008301c8a5d0$6cbc75d0$0401000a@openwindows> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: frank@carmickle.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: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:24:18 -0000 On Thu, Apr 24, 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 If your machine supports pc speaker at that stage you can insert a ^G at the end of the title line in grub stanzas and as you move from one to the next it will beep. Let's say for example you put a ^G on the first one but not the second or third then you have a clue where you are. Like I said this is machine dependent. I don't believe there was a serial port on the mini so it would be improbable to get serial console support working. I guess if the bios supported serial over usb this may be possible. If this wasn't your only machine I'd say you could use a pxe boot loader and tftp the images off another machine. Then you would know what image you were pulling all the time. If I find some time I will have a read through the docs on the bios and yaboot to see if I see any other options. --FC