Toby: You're saying you can get a text file about hw from Win? That's imporvement over the last time I tried such a thing. Do you know where, exactly, per chance? Perhaps I should add the datum to the Speakup Modified HOWTO. The one I remember was on Control Panel \ System \ Device Manager something or other. But, I don't recall its output being accessible. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Here's another one. > > > > Can one yet get a readable report on installed hardware under > > Windows? > > Actually, to be fair, one can, and has done for at least a couple of years > now. I've used it to do such things as compile a hardware list to ease my > transition to Linux, and also to turn off the glide mouse thingy on my > laptop, you know, the thing that uses your finger, sleeveor whatever comes > into contact with the pad as a pointer, and whose left and right buttons > (yes, I know, why two buttons?) are in just the place where they're likely > to get pressed when you least want/need. > > > As I recall, there's such a > thing, but it writes a graphical > file. Not at all as friendly as dmesg. > > I'll agree with you about dmesg, much nicer. > > Cheers. > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
