Not sure; http://www.realwiesel.com or something; $350US was too much to pay for this functionality. Regards, Kerry. On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:32:52PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Thanks for that info Kerry. How does a pc-wiesel board work, and where do I get one from? > Greg > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > The default dump location for print screen is the parallel port. > > Even if this does work in bios; It would only read screen from top to bottom > > and it would not tellyou any colour information at all. > > The only viable way to get speech in bios is with a > > pc-wiesel board $350US or to go get > > an Alpha or a spark or wait for openbios to be available > > for more chipsets. I hear it supports serial port config. > > Normal bioses especially award are inaccessable to my knowledge. > > You could write a program to read and write the cmos yourself provided you know > > what system specific bits your system board uses it changes for > > each board and chipset. This is why this has not been done > > before; motherboard manifacturers customize the bios before flashing it > > into the board. > > there is mrbios; not sure if it supports serial and what boards it supports. > > > > Regards, Kerry. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au