Currently you'll need somebody with eyes to read the cmos screens to you. I build systems and even I need sighted help in the cmos. On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:20:23PM -0500, brent harding wrote: > I wish I knew what I had, is there an autodetect that will tell me how to > toggle a few settings? I actually need it on my dell laptop, more than > likely the bios is made by dell, as they offer flash roms for it. What do > hex editors do? Does it actually make text out of the file you edit with, > and convert it back later? Can the setup be done over a remote connection > easily some how, have the cmos answer a modem or something so I can change > the power settings to allow me to read documents without the laptop going > on standby? It just could be that if I flash rom something that takes long > enough that the machine might just go on standby and totally make useless > the device I was working with. Why is /dev/nvram in existence, I just > loaded the module and ran MAKEDEV NVRAM because the device driver wasn't > found. > At 09:15 AM > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry at emusys.com.au kerry at gotss.spice.net.au or khoath at lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 8226547