-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You can also have the text console beep when the system is ready for you to login, by putting a control g in /etc/issue. So, the login beep isn't limited to gdm only. Greg On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > You might also want to put a switch on your serial port, so that you can > select your synth or your braille display without having always to > rewire them. > > When you do this kind of setup, you simply do your initialization by > hand, possibly from scripts that you keep to expedite the task. > > And, you might want to put little beeps and bleeps in key files to help > you along in the process, if you're booting without speech/braille. For > example, on my Fedora boxes, I put the following in my /etc/rc.local: > > aplay /boot/boot.wav > > I find this helpful for letting me know when the bootup process is about > finished, and the system is ready for me to login. > > With Gnome, it's possible to have gdm beep when the graphical dialog > comes up. So, I do both. > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCE65S7s9z/XlyUyARArPmAJ91K6pKryNdABrcNiHIyUH3TD/krwCfXjmA 7mGHsZy47GY7pqh4EjS1Nm8= =DPvm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
