From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail815.megamailservers.com (mail815.carrierinternetsolutions.com [69.49.106.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC79110B1D for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 22:17:01 -0400 (EDT) X-POP-User: gaijin.clearwire.net Received: from gnuked.clearwire.net (69-44-252-62.mrc.clearwire-dns.net [69.44.252.62]) by mail815.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4I2Gwm6003117 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 22:17:00 -0400 Received: from gnuked.clearwire.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gnuked.clearwire.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-4) with ESMTP id m4I2GvsQ006594 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 19:16:58 -0700 Received: (from gaijin@localhost) by gnuked.clearwire.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m4I2GvPY006593 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 17 May 2008 19:16:57 -0700 From: Gaijin Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 19:16:57 -0700 To: SpeakUP Mailing List Subject: Audible grup/lilo? Message-ID: <20080518021657.GA6521@clearwire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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: Sun, 18 May 2008 02:17:02 -0000 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