From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com (mail-pz0-f42.google.com [209.85.210.42]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF30C1A38C for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 23:58:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pzk10 with SMTP id 10so2107503pzk.29 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:58:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OkLwVSaZmFwJbhCtzf1Dbbwu83OndiSgRkG6t9GRxnE=; b=ufpRijt5jLhKhQthIuvrPc4nfGvcMGSk1b6AAClLdoHEiPsCOHQ0vHW5BLwnikImXW HWSJCmjJQEE6S2oyJk1gKvK3Nj1OiLK+O4Qvv/mVo9UiqQxZSy5uNSfe2gC2zEotbkJN RQszDz3mnNZcJi0PFDOosf63k0kxJQNNvkufw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uDyAZO2q3hmlZKb+7gp6hYfwvN8E7WWfNUbYpn8dXij4J6yBWRZ++eNVi3L0dcy6Mw cXTUhGFsnmu/21B0equ14FXJpXPAbUSoHF12gRAIp5EK8g6vNJUY2utNXg+BhvwpLEvM CvY9BRduAUXJaQhPUCYJ0I/syv7GZYX9RG6Qk= Received: by 10.114.61.16 with SMTP id j16mr14837443waa.143.1286337538370; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.218.128] ([124.43.1.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x9sm573816waj.3.2010.10.05.20.58.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CABF3FC.505@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:28:52 +0530 From: Janitha Rukmal User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Configuring grub / grub2 to indicate the boot menu items References: <4CAAACDA.6000006@gmail.com> <83CCE4DB87414FF0913B1E1AF9744C12@randy3> In-Reply-To: <83CCE4DB87414FF0913B1E1AF9744C12@randy3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:58:59 -0000 Hi Kitty and Janina, Many thanks for the tips. I really appreciate it cause it's going to benefit a large Speakup/ Linux fan crowd up here. Best regards Janitha Rukmal On 10/5/2010 5:42 PM, Kitty Litter wrote: > I am hardly a grub 2 expert but you need to edit > /etc/default/grub and uncomment the line grub_init_tune and modify the > tempo, frequency and duration to get the desired beep. Then you must > run update-grub as root to incorporate these changes into > /boot/grub/grub.cfg. You aren't supposed to edit this file directly. > If you try putting a ctrl-g in the title of a menu in > /etc/grub.d/10_linux you will get a beep when you press enter on an > item but not when you arrow passed it, at least that was the behavior > when I tried it 6 months ago. After you run update-grub you can look > at /boot/grub/grub.cfg to see what order the menu items will be in. > The menu items don't appear to wrap so if you want the last item you > could arrow down a bunch of times and press enter. Remember you must > run update-grub to incorporate these changes into grub.cfg. Also, info > grub for grub docs. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup