You can set the blt to full-duplex, they call it, is that the same as bi-directional? I don't know about not being able to send out via cerial. Mine seems to make sounds and say weird jiberish when the computer starts that is when I turn it on and after the first beep. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: Re: changing bios settings, without eyes, how? > I see how that could work with a blt, assuming that its parallel port > is a bidirectional port. However, I don't see how it would work with a > bns, unless the bios can send the output via a serial port. You > wouldn't be able to use the serial to parallel converter, since that > only works one way to provide output, and can't deal with input. > > Greg > > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:42:09AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I've also heard of people getting this working with a bns/blt using > > the printscreen key. > > -- > 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