Don't be dense. Of course the beeping comes from your speaker, but the issue is what triggers the beep and what generates it? That which may do so in the bios relates to software in bios. Period. That which does so via pcspkr relates tot he Linux kernel. Period. That which does so at the boot loader stage relates to the boot loader. Period. Sean M McMahon writes: > I always thought the beeping came from your pc speaker and was > determined by your bios. Then again in that fadora howto which uses a 2.6 > kernel with a modular speakup, they use a --with pcspkr option. I don't > see why you can't pass that option at the end of where you put the kernel > line or actually I think that goes on the line after the kernel line. I > don't know, the grub documentation never gave an example of a file with > special kernel peramiters, then initrd lines then lines specifying > modules. What I do, is set the delay really high If I need to type > something in, something like ttimeout 30. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040