Yes, they have it in their laptops, usually, not sure about the later ones though. Marcel At 10:43 PM 12/10/2006, you wrote: >HI, i'm not sure if this applies to the current conversation here, >but an interesting note. >Toshiba makes a bios utility for windows you can read everything >with in the bios, change the boot order and all that. I'm not sure >how you could actually program one of those for LInux, but maybe you >could contact Toshiba and talk to thems. >On 10/12/2006 at 4:41 Gregory Nowak said >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:21:04PM +1300, Marcel Oats wrote: > > The other think we could > > think about, are why companies such as Asus have not made a piece > of windows > > software that is able to read the bios parameter block on their > > boards, and allow the user to change them, in a nice accessible > > interface. > >Why limit it to Asus, why not ask the same thing of all companies >producing motherboards and bios code? Actually, I think that if AMI >and Award were to include it in the base bios, the mb companies >probably wouldn't pull it out. > >\as for the why, I'm willing to bet that it's because they don't care, >because they think the RND would be too expensive, and probably >because these companies think the market for something like this is >too small. Granted, something like this wouldn't probably cost too >much to develop. While we're discussing things to think about, if such >a utility were developed, it would be nice to find it on the CD that >comes with the mb, instead of having to pay for yet another program, >because you have a disability, and most other people don't. Oh one >more thing, let's not limit it to windows, arguably, I think such a >utility would be easier to program as a gnu/linux text-based >application, though since I haven't done hardware driver programming >under gnu/linux, I could be wrong in my estimate of the difficulty level. > >Greg > > > >- -- >web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >skype: gregn1 >(authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > >- -- >Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFFLeuP7s9z/XlyUyARAjVAAKCASW/PEucGdZpscORSn3OW9mTMiQCgtvJs >IUjw10Vyr+pgVaPUAbQculk= >=hfcK >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
