What I was referring to is that the bootloader used to be able to talk. In other words, it used to have screen reader support. I mean, how is a generic sound file going to assist us in independently installing OpenSuSE? -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of John G. Heim Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 10:24 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible boot loader Are you sure that opensuse doesn't still support that feature? According to the google, it just played a sound file through the PC speaker. And if you have the right format for your sound file, that is literally just a write operation. There would be little reason to remove such a feature because it wouldn't take any maintenance. PS: Here is a script I wrote that kind of lets you hear your GRUB_INIT_TUNE before you update grub. It reads /etc/default/grub and plays the GRUB_INIT_TUNE via the beep command. It doesn't give exactly the right tempo but you should be able to get a pretty good idea of what you are going to hear at boot with this script. #!/bin/bash if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then GRUB_INIT_TUNE=$1 fi if [ "$GRUB_INIT_TUNE" == "" ]; then GRUB_INIT_TUNE=`grep ^GRUB_INIT_TUNE /etc/default/grub | cut -d\" -f2 ` fi TEMPO="" FREQ="" TUNE="" for VAL in $GRUB_INIT_TUNE; do if [ "$TEMPO" == "" ]; then TEMPO=$VAL elif [ "$FREQ" == "" ];then FREQ=$VAL; elif [ "$TUNE" == "" ]; then TUNE=" -d $TEMPO -f $FREQ -l ${VAL}00" FREQ="" else test "$FREQ" == "0" || TUNE="$TUNE -n -f $FREQ -l ${VAL}00" FREQ="" fi; done; beep $TUNE echo "$TUNE" On 11/07/13 08:49, Katherine Moss wrote:
Gosh, I love Open SuSE! It's my favorite Linux distribution. I remember that too, but for whatever reason they quit developing it. If you are a coder, you could always bring it back to life. I think what has happened is that most of the mainstream Linux developers are aware of blindness-specific versions of Linux, so they think, Oh, okay, the blind will just use what they know as accessible so that now we don't have to worry about it.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 11:35 PM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible boot loader
Hello,
Does anyone remember a while back, maybe they still do, OpenSuse had an accessible boot loader? It would say via speech output what item you were on.
I'm wanting to get that or an alternative? I was wondering if anyone knew of one?
Thanks. Dave.
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