The International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists is currectly seeking people to form a committee to contact Microsoft about this. The plan is to draft a letter to Microsoft detailing our concerns. I've had a call out on our web site for some time already. If you're interested in helping to draft this letter, let me know. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zameer Mahomed" <core7xx@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows XP live CD with sound support again
Hi Andrew,
One of the reasons why audio didn't simply work is because, the audio service needs to be installed and started.
I know for networking and other necessary services which makes a pre-environment, one may use the drvload program to load drivers.
But I guess microsoft fail to recognise that there are also visually impaired system administrators, hence they probably felt audio is unnecessary in a pre-environment.
I personally wish we could sign some sort of petition so that microsoft may provide audio support for installing windows 8 without sighted assistance, or a least make available instructions to have audio supported in the future pre-environment that will correspond to windows 8.
Please people, let's do something about this! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows XP live CD with sound support again
Hi,
Interestingly enough I upgraded a suite of tools the other day called L-Soft Active BootDisk, which I use for PC troubleshooting and file recovery. One of the options in the new software is to add drivers with .inf files, and it is now based on the Win7 PE. I was going to try and find the drivers for a USB sound card I have, but my initial attempt to get this working with NVDA portable failed to work, I suspect because the drivers that come on the disk for the USB soundcard are not digitally signed.
When I put the sound card into the machine in Win7, it detects the drivers and installs automatically. The issues I have with just copying from the hard drive is that the system is 64-bit, and I am not sure where to find the inf files for the drivers concerned.
Thanks. Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: 04 July 2011 21:29 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows XP live CD with sound support again
Hi,
Pe has had audio support since v2, so the vista pe will be able to be used. I was under the understanding that since all bart pe type projects were based apon pe 1.0 that audio wasn't supported; do you know for a fact that audio is supported and that the info file you've found isn't just some junk that ms left behind?
On 04/07/2011, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel <chmiel@deep.cz> wrote:
Dear members of this conference, I would like to inform You about The possibility for creating Windows XP live CD. I have been also tried The WIN PE based on WIndows Vista core, i have tested excellent tool for sighted users named JUDE USB wizard. Unfortunately, sound support is not included in WIndows PE based on WIndows Vista, and i think, that sound support will not be awailable also while using WIndows PE based on Windows 7 kernel. But there is other choice. Using Windows XP and Bardspe and, and this is very important, try to use The following project. It is awailable on The following address. http://www.llanelly.com/downloads.html If You will download The following .zip archive http://www.llanelly.com/downloads/file/11-xpebuilder.html And if You will finish The installation, You will find The file msaudio.inf in The following folder:
\XPEBuilder\Plugin\300_drivers\oem-ms-drivers The task is, where to add .inf and .sys drivers, on which folder? And if it is simply possible to add new device driver to The msaudio.inf file. NVDA latest development and all released version are fully compatible with Windows PE environment, there is also braille device directly supported by NVDA without need to installing it's driver. So if somebody would have The time, I AM suggesting to integrate some sound driver to The .inf file from The XPE Builder v0.1.0.146 project. There are many various preconfigured and preinstalled plugins, i AM only wondering, if visually impaired users will be able to use included alternative shell. Powermenu is perfectly accessible, it's whole start menu, so this would be a perfect shell alternative, which would be used in The resulted XP live media. There is also ammazing solution, visually impaired system administrator could buy The USB sound cart, which can be detected by WIndows XP and this driver could be incorporated to The resulted WIndows XP live CD. Because integrating many sound drivers would consume many space and i AM afraid, that algorithms for searching The sound hardware and triing to include so many drivers would break The load process of The live environment. Brltty will not be easy to integrate, because services feature is not simply to setup in live mode.
-- Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
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