From: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@linux-speakup.org>
Subject: Re: the push to get rid of CONFIG_VT in the kernel and the future of Speakup
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:32:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9zd2u16.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543696F6.7090109@math.wisc.edu> (John G. Heim's message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:08:54 -0500")
"John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu> writes:
> Here at the University of Wisconsin, there
> are a lot of linux systems admin jobs. And for the majority of them,
> it would be a big problem if you couldn't access the boot messages.
Is the serial console support not appropriate / acceptable?
When I first started out with Linux, I had a Braille 'n Speak, and I
used it as a dumb terminal. If I started the serial console at boot, I
got to see all of the boot messages from the kernel, regardless of
whether I had Speakup. It's not really a good way to work, when
compared to Speakup, but for tasks such as diagnosing boot failures, it
was usable.
If I worked professionally as an on-site sysadmin, I might try to
do something similar today. The BNS isn't manufactured any more, but
I'm sure there's something that would work as well.
-- Chris
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` Cleverson Casarin Uliana
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` John G. Heim
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` Chris Brannon
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` Chris Brannon
` John G. Heim
` running VMs from a live environment Chris Brannon
` the push to get rid of CONFIG_VT in the kernel and the future of Speakup Gregory Nowak
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` Cleverson Casarin Uliana
` John G. Heim
` Janina Sajka
` Kyle
` John G. Heim
` Janina Sajka
` Talking with the systemd-consoled people (Was: the push to get rid of CONFIG_VT in the kernel and the future of Speakup) Samuel Thibault
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