Oh yeah that's what I've heard is a good way to configure the bios. Of co7urse you'd need a lot of them or be able to slip cards in and out of computers with ease. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Debian question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hey, Any chance this method could enable you to configure the BIOS? That > would be really trippy if one could. That would surely solve a big > accessibility problem for a bunch of us. > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:18:22AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > > This probably won't really help you much because it's expensive and it's > > not really a solution but I just thought I'd mention that there is a tool > > that is really helpful in debugging boot problems. It's a PC Weasel. > > > > You put this card in your machine replacing the video card. The operating > > system recognizes it as a video card except that instead of video output it > > has a serial port. So you can connect a null-modem cable to it and another > > machine running a terminal emulator and get the boot messages. I use it a > > lot when I have a machine that won't boot or when I'm trying to make a > > bootable CD. It costs like $300 though. > > > > It really works well with speakup because it doesn't interfere with speakup > > in any way. The operating system isn't aware that there is anything > > different about the VGA card other than that it is an unrecognized type of > > card. So it treats it like a generic VGA card. If you have some kind of > > problem, you can plug in the null-modem cable and get whatever is on the > > screen, whether it be boot messages or a login prompt or whatever. > > > > > > PS: I think I have a problem similar to yours. I installed the speakup > > modified 2.6.12 kernel on a machine that had a unmodified 2.6.8 kernel. It > > won't boot unless my external doubletalk LE is connected and turned on. > > And when it does boot, I get no speech. There is nothing wrong with my > > synth. And speakup appears to know it's there since if it's turned off, it > > won't boot at all. It's exam week so I haven't had time to check out what's > > really happening yet. I was running debian sarge so I am not sure that > > you'll have any luck if you go back to sarge. > > > > Oh, one thing I'd suggest... Make sure your disk partitions aren't full. > > Check especially / and /boot. > > > > > > > > At 05:08 PM 10/18/2005, Scott wrote: > > >Folks, I have a question regarding a Debian install. > > >First seeing as I have little hope of correcting the problems with my > > >current Sid install as I can't get speech from Speakup, I am > > >considering reinstalling Sarge. > > >What I was wondering is how possible would it be to simply install > > >over the current Sid installation. My thinking is that I can keep a > > >number of apps that were previously working with Sarge before > > >upgrading to Sid and most if not everything would be replaced when I > > >install Sarge. I know this is probably an insane approach, but I of > > >course would rather figure out why Speakup hangs while probing for > > >the DoubleTalk external. I do not have another synth to connect so I > > >have to use this one. It was working fine before I upgraded to the > > >latest version of Sid and even replacing Lilo with Grub did not > > >correct the problem. It also seems to matter little what kernel I'm > > >running as I even grabbed a 2.6.13 and brewed a new kernel. > > >Sure am lost on this one, but before I do get into this install, I > > >thought I'd ask a few questions and maybe avoid loads of setting up > > >again. > > >I know wishfull thinking. > > > > > >Scott > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > John G. Heim > > jheim at math.wisc.edu > > 3-4189 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDXPftWSjv55S0LfERAzU9AJ9a/LmB667p/qy5sq8ixD2JarNd2ACgkEn1 > OvNhSuZXrJuR4i5Ld2jfJMw= > =Ay+5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
