Yes, unless there is either a. no sound card, b. no supported kernel
driver, c. no speakers, or d. the person doesn't understand the language
of the prompt. It's a nice idea, but I suspect the Mac has better out of
the box sound card support. Linux will support sound cards via alsa
drivers but I never could get it to work when I tried except for very
basic wave files on a generic SB16. Maybe a better way would be to probe
the serial ports for a hardware synthesizer but that could screw up
other serial devices. I think the best bet would be a beep through the
PC speaker after the system is booted and waiting at a prompt. That
still isn't perfect as newer computers don't have PC speakers or they
are very quiet but it's better than no feedback at all.
Jude DaShiell wrote:
pebrock may fill the bill for the accessible chat program and so far
as I know, it's floss. If a self-booting linux gets made that puts a
message up on the screen and waits a certain amount of time for a
response then rather than going on with bringing up the rest of the
system asks a question over the sound system and if it gets an
affirmative answer turns on software speech for the rest of the
session then you'll have something akin to the tiger install
environment for the apple macintosh as well as leopard.
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