While the Blazer will read the entire screen to you, you will want a hard copy of what you are looking at to remember all the menus or to look at the options. In my bios the command was the print key next to the scroll lock key which sent all the screen data to the blazer. You don't need a conversion cable as the Blazer has both parallel and serial ports. The parallel port is for use with pc's, and serial port is for use with notetakers such as the BNS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: Re: changing bios settings, without eyes, how? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Although wouldn't you have to have some osrt of parallel to serial > adapter plugged into the parallel port of the Blazer, since the print > screen command won't send output to the serial port? > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:38:22PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Since the blazer can also speak whatever comes in through its parallel > > port, you theoretically wouldn't need lots of paper. > > > > I'll have to try this some time to see if it works. I assume the > > print screen key on the keyboard is used to issue the print screen > > command? > > > > Greg > > > > P.S. My machines here all have Award BIOSes, anyone know if this works > > for a fact with Award BIOSes? > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:18:19PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote: > > > Hi, to access the bios the most helpful tool is a braille printer such as a > > > braille blazer. You can sometimes use a print screen command to print the > > > entire screen to a braille page and follow it through the menus and to see > > > the options and what they are set to. > > > It takes alot of time and paper to do it right, but the method does work in > > > alot of cases. > > > If you don't have a braille printer then all you have is sighted help to > > > depend on. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAU+tQNohoaf1zXJMRAq+sAKCEHnk2CaI8TyNnCkOh3IJVlP2grgCeL9CA > CGrHf7Vkfv1BesmC2rLaMG8= > =zEBw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
